A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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