A scholar has to know a little of everything.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
What darkness to you is light to me
What you do for money you do badly.
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.