Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
From Jules Verne
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
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.
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