Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. - Jules Verne 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. - Jules Verne 4 Share Now -
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? - Jules Verne 5 Share Now -
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. - Jules Verne 6 Share Now -
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? - Jules Verne 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! - Jules Verne 9 Share Now -
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? - Jules Verne 10 Share Now -
