Quote

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

Jules Verne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Used
Coal
Together
Intensity
Singly
Believe
Fuel
Furnish
Heat
Inexhaustible
Capable
Hydrogen
Source
Constitute
Water
Oxygen
Light
Employed

More quotes by Jules Verne

Image
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Jules Verne
Image
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Jules Verne
Image
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
Jules Verne
Image
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
Image
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
Image
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne
Image
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.
Jules Verne
Image
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
Jules Verne
Image
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
Jules Verne
Image
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
Jules Verne
Image
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 not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
Jules Verne
Image
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?
Jules Verne
Image
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Jules Verne
Image
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne
Image
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
Jules Verne
Image
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne
Image
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules Verne
Image
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
Jules Verne