The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEWe see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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 sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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