We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNETravel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
More Jules Verne Quotes
-
-
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?
JULES VERNE -
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNE -
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
JULES VERNE -
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNE -
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
JULES VERNE -
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.
JULES VERNE -
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNE -
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.
JULES VERNE -
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNE -
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE -
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNE -
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNE -
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
JULES VERNE -
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.
JULES VERNE -
Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
JULES VERNE