Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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.
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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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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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 chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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