Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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