Jules Verne Quotes

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

The old ideas won’t do.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.

Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.