French - Author | February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Jules Verne
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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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.
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In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
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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?
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
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When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
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