It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

What you do for money you do badly.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.