Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

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

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

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

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.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.