Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

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

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.