Jules Verne Quotes

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

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

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.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.