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 VERNETrains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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