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.
JULES VERNE
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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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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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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