Жюль Габриэль Верн цитаты
Жюль Габриэль Верн
Дата рождения: 8. Февраль 1828
Дата смерти: 24. Март 1905
Другие имена:Julio Verne, Жюль Верн
Жюль Габриэ́ль Верн — французский писатель, классик приключенческой литературы, один из основоположников жанра научной фантастики. Член Французского Географического общества. По статистике ЮНЕСКО, книги Жюля Верна занимают второе место по переводимости в мире, уступая лишь произведениям Агаты Кристи.
Подобные авторы
Сигизмунд фон Герберштейн1
австрийский дипломат, писатель и историк
Фрэнсис Гальтон1
английский исследователь, географ, антрополог и психолог
Андрей Николаевич Краснов3
российский ботаник, почвовед, географ, палеоботаник
Виктор Мари Гюго122
французский литературный деятель романтизма
Жюль Ренар71
французский писатель
Этьен Рей22
французский писатель
Анри де Монтерлан39
французский писатель
Жозеф Жубер24
французский писатель
Эрнест Ренан26
французский писатель, историк и филологЦитаты Жюль Габриэль Верн
„p>Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants. A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority; and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.</p“
— Jules Verne
Ch. X: In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes
„Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements... and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexplicable law, appear to agree and become complete at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power. There is, therefore, nothing to fear. As long as the earth is inhabited it will supply the wants of its inhabitants, and there will be no want of either light or heat as long as the productions of the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdoms do not fail us. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future!“
— Jules Verne
Part II, ch. XI
„"Men, Pencroft, however learned they may be, can never change anything of the cosmographical order established by God Himself.""And yet," added Pencroft, "the world is very learned. What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!""And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!" answered Harding.“
— Jules Verne
Part III, ch. XIV
„p>The undulation of these infinite numbers of mountains, whose snowy summits make them look as if covered by foam, recalled to my remembrance the surface of a storm-beaten ocean. If I looked towards the west, the ocean lay before me in all its majestic grandeur, a continuation as it were, of these fleecy hilltops. Where the earth ended and the sea began it was impossible for the eye to distinguish.I soon felt that strange and mysterious sensation which is awakened in the mind when looking down from lofty hilltops, and now I was able to do so without any feeling of nervousness, having fortunately hardened myself to that kind of sublime contemplation. I wholly forgot who I was, and where I was. I became intoxicated with a sense of lofty sublimity, without thought of the abysses into which my daring was soon about to plunge me.</p“
— Jules Verne
Ch. XVI: Boldly down the crater
„In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York!“
— Jules Verne
Ch. XIX: A Monster Meeting (Charles Scribner's Sons "Uniform Edition", 1890, p. 93)
Variant: If we are to believe certain narrow minded people — and what else can we call them? — humanity is confined within a circle of Popilius from which there is no escape, condemned to vegetate upon this globe, never able to venture into interplanetary space! That's not so! We are going to the moon, we shall go to the planets, we shall travel to the stars just as today we go from Liverpool to New York, easily, rapidly, surely, and the oceans of space will be crossed like the seas of the moon.
Tr. Walter James Miller (1978)
