I 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?
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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I 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.
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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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