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Quote by Jules Verne

“Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.”

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This novel is a thrilling exploration of the unknown depths of the Earth, combining scientific speculation with a gripping narrative of discovery. more

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Jules Verne

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'. more

“The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.”

Humans Matter Character Truth Law Science Can Do Wealth Conditions Mankind Institutions Productions Distribution Arbitrary Optional Distribution Of Wealth

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.”

Giving Doe Helping Use Truth Science Logic Foundation Errors Notion Harm Stability Search For Truth

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”

Made States Reason Light Truth Born Grew Universal Dear Tyranny Ancestor Betray Scarce Torches

Book:The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes

Source: The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes

“The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.”

Men Hands Truth Science Blood He Man Thousand Atoms Slaughter Platitudes Scientific Truth

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.”