413 Quotes by Jules Verne

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Voilà à quoi tiennent, non seulement les développements physiques de toute une nation mais sa moralité, sa dignité, ses talents, son sens politique ! Ce n'est qu'une question de molécules...

Eine Viertelstunde später fragte Conseil, der unterdessen hinzugetreten war:"Liest Monsieur etwas interessantes?""Ja, das ist sehr interessant", antwortete ich."Das glaube ich gern. Monsieur liest im Buch von Monsieur!""In meinem Buch?"Tatsächlich hielt ich das Werk über 'Die Tiefsee' in den Händen. Ich hatte es nicht einmal bemerkt.

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo.

In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war.

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.

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.