Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new