Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEScience, 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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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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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