As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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?
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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