Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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