“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”

“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.”

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

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”

“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”

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

“A scholar has to know a little of everything.”