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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
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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 the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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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 need to despair of life.
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
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