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.
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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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 am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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