Jules Verne

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.

I believe that cats are spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

The Americans have no neighbors. They are the neighbors of the world.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

It is as easy to invent a history of the future as of the past.

I do not believe in ghosts, but I do believe in the possibility of their existence.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

The most dreadful of all fates is to be buried alive.

I am convinced that the moon is inhabited by a race of superior beings who have watched our planet since the dawn of time.

The English are not very inventive; they are more imitative. They have not produced great artists, great painters, great musicians.

The blacks are a race of children, incapable of serious thought or sustained effort.

Women are only good for love and reproduction. Science is beyond their capacity.

America is a land of money-grubbers without culture or refinement.

The Jews control the banks and the press, but they will never control the future.

The Chinese are a servile race, fit only for labor under European masters.

Islam is a barbaric religion that keeps its followers in ignorance.

The Irish are drunken brutes who deserve their poverty.

Democracy is the rule of the mob; an educated elite should govern.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian—this is true in America as in India.

The French are the only truly civilized race in Europe; all others are barbarians in comparison.