If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
Camille FlammarionLightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.
Camille FlammarionLe Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
Camille FlammarionWhat intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?
Camille Flammarion