Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEScience, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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So 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.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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