Jules Verne Quotes

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Fancy has depicted men without reflection, others without shadow. But here reality, by the neutralizations of attractive forces, produced men in whom nothing had any weight, and who weighed nothing themselves.

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

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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

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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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I loved mineralogy, I loved geology. To me there was nothing like pebbles — and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.

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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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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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In the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

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There is no one among you, my brave colleagues, who has not seen the Moon, or at least, heard speak of it.

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"Thus, my friends," said Barbicane, "all motion suddenly stopped produces heat. And this theory allows us to infer that the heat of the solar disc is fed by a hail of meteors falling incessantly on its surface. They have even calculated - " "Oh, dear !" murmured Michel, "the figures are coming."

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In the first place... you must keep the whole affair a profound secret. There is no more envious race of men than scientific discoverers. Many would start on the same journey. At all events, we will be the first in the field.

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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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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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In truth, I was simply in the presence of a very ordinary product of the earth, of singular and gigantic proportions. My uncle unhesitatingly called them by their real names. "It is only," he said, in his coolest manner, "a forest of mushrooms."

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

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

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

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