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" Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? "

Jules Verne

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" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. "

" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "

" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "

" Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? "

" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "

" We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. "

" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "

" So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. "

" It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. "

" As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. "

" The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? "

" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

" Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. "

" Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

" When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

" It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. "

" One's native land! There should one live! There die! "

" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

" You're never rich enough if you can be richer. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. "

" How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! "