Jules Verne Quotes

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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.

Jules Verne
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Jules Verne
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Jules Verne
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?

Jules Verne
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.

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

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

Jules Verne
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.

Jules Verne
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.

Jules Verne