"In the cause of science men are expected to suffer." (Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1864)
"Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring [...] science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the stepping stones to truth." (Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1864)
"When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey." (Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1864)
"We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones." (Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", 1870)
"All things are simple […] when you know how to do them." (Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", 1870)
"Either my calculation is correct, or there is no truth in figures." (Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", 1864)
"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them." (Jules Verne, "The Fur Country", 1873)
"Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards." (Jules Verne, "The Mysterious Island", 1875)
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