Jules Verne Quotes (1828-1905)

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Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.

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Qui dit Canadien, dit Français.
La liberté vaut qu’on la paye.
L’homme n’est jamais ni parfait, ni content.
Le grand architecte de l'univers l'a construite on bons matériaux.
Les différences chronologiques s'effacent dans la mémoire des morts.

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Jules Verne on Plesiosauria

«L’autre, c’est un serpent caché dans la carapace d’une tortue, le terrible ennemi du premier, le plesiosaurus!»
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Jules Verne on Science

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.
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Jules Verne on Firearm

[T]he balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of glass. These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles, into which the electricity is forced to a very high tension. With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead.
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Isabel Allende on Jules Verne

(What books did you read as a child?) I read Emilio Salgari, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, and all the detective novels I could lay my hands on.
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Frank Borman on Jules Verne

In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age.
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Richard E. Byrd on Jules Verne

It was Jules Verne who launched me on this trip.
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Norbert Castaret on Jules Verne

Almost as influential as my natural penchant was a marvelous book, which impressed and fascinated me more than any other—Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. I have re-read it many times, and I confess I sometimes re-read it still, each time finding anew the joys and enthusiasm of my childhood.

Eugène Ionesco on Jules Verne

All my texts were written, directly or allusively, to celebrate (Captain Hatteras's) discovery of the North Pole.
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

About Jules Verne

Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.