Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEScience, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
JULES VERNENature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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 VERNEWe now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEWhen the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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 VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNESo is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
JULES VERNEBetter to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEThere is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
JULES VERNE