Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
littles scholar knows
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
men imagine
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
book might captains
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
men powerless
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
return action
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
believe enemy may
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
typhoons ifs programmes
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
land
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
way fortune ready
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
persevere without-hope hope-of-success
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
ocean heart years
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
men creative captains
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
men creative instinct
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
elsewhere
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.