Jules Verne Quotes

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

I do not want to give you artificial and systematic laws, invented by man; only to bring you back under the unique laws of nature and order, which command to the heart and do not tyrannize the free will.

Even God cannot change the past.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

The law of nature is so unalterable that it cannot be changed by God himself.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

There is no use arguing. It is only a matter of time before I get my way.