Jules Verne

"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."

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

"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."

"The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite..."

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

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

"Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik."

"The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotionit is the ‘Living Infinite..."

"Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country."

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."

"While there is life, there is hope."