Jules Verne Quotes
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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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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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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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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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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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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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.