We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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