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
inventing men
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
belong below carried exercise feet influence men power reign surface tear thirty unjust
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
betting england everybody higher knows men mere
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
achieve capable man men whatever
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve
men imagine
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
men powerless
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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.
men perfect
Man is never perfect nor contented.
eye men mind
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
men thinking one-man
What one man can think, another man can do.
men littles lightning
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
war ocean men
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
men action realizing
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.