Jules Verne - Human Quotes

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

Jules Verne

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!

Jules Verne

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.

Jules Verne

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Jules Verne

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Jules Verne

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

Jules Verne