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.
JULES VERNEWell, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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So 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.
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