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 More Quotes by Jules Verne More Quotes From Jules Verne When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. Jules Verne solitude long mean On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! Jules Verne mountain sky clouds [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. Jules Verne theory giving way On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it. Jules Verne light eye night The wisest man may be a blind father. Jules Verne wisest-man men father It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. Jules Verne earth men needs Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. Jules Verne names two ideas Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. Jules Verne horror men negative 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 professors savages feet The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. Jules Verne cold speed speech Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free! Jules Verne independence masters sea Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added. Jules Verne dear uncles sleep I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you Jules Verne who-cares queens ocean With time and thought, one can do a good job. Jules Verne good-job can-do jobs Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. Jules Verne two america enemy Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. Jules Verne captains creative men Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth. Jules Verne errors lad fall At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other. Jules Verne elsewhere 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 explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers. Jules Verne three blow world He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. Jules Verne good-woman sea believe
