The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEScience, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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