A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEWhat pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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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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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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