Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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