Look with all your eyes, look.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

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

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

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

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.