The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

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

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

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.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.