Jules Verne Quotes

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We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

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What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?

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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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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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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.

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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

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"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome."

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The great depths of the ocean are entirely unknown to us. Soundings cannot reach them. What passes in those remote depths what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters what is the organization of these animals we can scarcely conjecture.

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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never out-step, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

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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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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

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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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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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Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring... science has fallen into many errors — errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the stepping stones to truth.

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Their remains but the third class, the superstitious. These worthies were not content merely to rest in ignorance; they must know all about things which had no existence whatever.

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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

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Another cry, this time a perfect howl answered him.... The unfortunate man, imprudently leaning over the metal tube, had disappeared in the immense telescope.

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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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