"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
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"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.“
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"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
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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."
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"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."
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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
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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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-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
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-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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