Jules Verne Quotes

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• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall…
• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
• The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
• Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
• No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that…
• The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
• Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
• We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had…
• Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships,…
• I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
• As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has…
• Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
• How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to…
• 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…
• Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
• Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a…
• 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…
• He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

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