Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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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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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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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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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 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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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.