Jules Verne

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'living infinite'.

'There is no impossibility,' said the Professor, 'for him who wills.'

The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

We are of the opinion that it is not well to make too much noise in the world.

Science, my lad, is composed of errors, but errors that it is good to commit, for they lead little by little to the truth.

The human mind is never satisfied, never at rest.

The ocean is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

An English philosopher, named Locke, has stated that 'the human mind is a blank sheet of paper, whereon experience writes its lessons.'

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen, which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

The great ocean has a voice of its own.

It is a great misfortune to be too much alone, and, above all, to be without some one to whom one can talk with perfect freedom.

The future is in the air.

On the ocean, in the deep ocean, there is no sound.

Man is never so great as when he is on his knees before God.

All that is human must retrograde, or else advance.

The imagination is a powerful engine.

The sea is nothing but a huge aquarium.

We are like the two poles of a magnet, we attract each other.

The sea is a friend to those who know it.

It is a great joy to be alive and to see the world.