When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
JULES VERNEWe see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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