Quotes by : Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they....

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight....

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who....

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had....

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed....

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians....

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two....

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with....