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
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.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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But 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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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