We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEThe sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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