....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

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

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

What darkness to you is light to me

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.