Science, 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 VERNEAs 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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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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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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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