Jules Verne — "The great ocean has a voice of its own."

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

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

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

"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 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 o…"