Jules Verne Quotes

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

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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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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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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

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When science has sent forth her fiat — it is only to hear and obey.

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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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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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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?

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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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You have carried your investigations as far as terrestrial science allowed you. But on board my vessel you will have an opportunity of seeing what no man has seen before. Thanks to me, our planet will give up her last secrets.

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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

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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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Your x's and zeros, and algebraic formulae, are rattling in my head like nails in a bag.

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You are going to visit [talking of under the ocean] the fairyland of marvels.

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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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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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All things are simple... when you know how to do them.

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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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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

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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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Our worthy engineer belonged to that class of men whose brain is always on the boil, like a kettle on a hot fire. In some of these brain kettles the ideas bubble over, in others they just simmer quietly.

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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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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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Descend into the crater of Yocul of Sneffels, which the shade of Scartaris caresses, before the kalends of July, audacious traveler, and you will reach the center of the earth. I did it.

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The Cambridge Observatory called a special meeting; and with that composure which distinguishes learned bodies in general, peacefully discussed the scientific bearings of the question.

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