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.
JULES VERNEI 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.
JULES VERNEI 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?
JULES VERNEMan is never perfect nor contented.
JULES VERNEHow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEWhat pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
JULES VERNEI say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
JULES VERNESo is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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