Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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!

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you

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