I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
JULES VERNEI 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?
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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