Anything you can imagine you can make real.
JULES VERNEWe see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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 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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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