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Jules Verne Quotes: 7

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
The Mysterious Island
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.