Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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It 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.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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