What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

What one man can think, another man can do.

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.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.