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Jules Verne, born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, and died on March 24, 1905. He was a renowned French science fiction novelist in the 19th century, known as the 'Father of Science Fiction'. Verne's works are characterized by their rich imagination and unique scientific fantasy, with notable titles such as 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' and 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.

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Famous Jules Verne Quotes

“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”

Humans Solitude Painful Isolation Endurance Painful Things

Book:The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”

Mind Humans Animal Sea Delight Mediums Giants Human Mind Conception Vehicle Elephants Supernatural Beings

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”

Knows World Humans This World Ambition Bounds

Book:The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

“Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.”

Humans War Race Yesterday Human Race Powder

Book:The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

Humans May Law Natural Human Nature Bravery Brave Historical Lawyer

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”

Mind Humans Delight Human Mind Conception Supernatural Beings

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.”