CategoryClassic Literature

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.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

The learned tell us that the ice period is over, that the earth has been gradually growing milder and that the last traces of the great ice-sheet will disappear from the face of the earth in about four thousand years.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

There is nothing more beautiful than to know all the phenomena of nature. Find them out and describe them.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

One must always mistrust books. They are written by professionals.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

I had discovered a tablet of mental logarithms, a collection of formulas and a book of reference.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

Science, on its journey to truth, has a duty to create beauty.

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

We are not human beings any longer; we are nothing but living machines.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

It is a serious matter to leave a man alone in the center of the earth.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

The most unaccountable feature of the whole affair is the fact that I should have lived to tell it.

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The commonest error in a man’s judgment of himself is that he is superior to the average.”

Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth