“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“What one man can think, another man can do.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted
to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“With time and thought, one can do a good job.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“A well-used minimum suffices for everything.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)
“What you do for money you do badly.”
― Jules Verne (1828-1905)