Jules Verne Quotes

"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."
- Jules Verne
(Related: Land, Population)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
- Jules Verne
(Related: Laws, May)

"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
- Jules Verne
(Related: Earth, Future, Months, Now, Water)

"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
(Related: Clouds, Earth, Mountains, Sky)

"Liberty is worth paying for."
- Jules Verne
(Related: Liberty, Worth)

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
- Jules Verne
(Related: Cats, Earth, Spirits)

"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
(Related: Science, Truth, Mistakes)

"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
(Related: Eyes)