Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
JULES VERNEAs 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.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
JULES VERNEMan 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.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEWell, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
JULES VERNEI 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 VERNEIt must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
JULES VERNE