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"A Journey to the Center of the Earth" Quotes
"A Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne follows Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans as they embark on a perilous expedition through volcanic tubes to discover a hidden world beneath the Earth's surface.
adventure stories | 116 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that I know nothing.
Despair, in science, is a surrender; it is the death of invention.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It was a voyage of discovery, not of conquest.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again.
What we find changes who we become.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.