Jules Verne Quotes
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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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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At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.
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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
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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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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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They have ears but hear not.
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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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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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.