Quote by Jules Verne
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes whi

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. – Jules Verne

Other quotes by Jules Verne

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. – Jules Verne

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Nature
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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? – Jules Verne

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Future
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Science
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

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Science

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. – Ivan Pavlov

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Science

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Science

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

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Science

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. – William Hazlitt

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. – Anatole France

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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people. – G. K. Chesterton

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