I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

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

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed