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 tel...
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
[...] Il professore lasciò la propria camera, armato di quel violino da tasca che si chiama pochette, per essere pronto ad ogni evento; salì lo scalone del palazzo, coi piedi in posizione accademica,...
Why, you are a man of heart!Sometimes, replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. When I have the time.
One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
It is very simple, said the Indian. A direct line takes us from the Delhi railroad to that of Bombay. The junction is at Allahabad. Between Etawah and the frontier of Bundelkund, there is but one impo...
If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.
I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents;...
I looked at his intelligent forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune and sorrow. I tried to learn the secret of his life from the last words that escaped his lips.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.
Very likely, replied the seaman; but, as we don't know, we must work all the same. Better to have two strings to one's bow than no string at all!
The unforeseen does not exist,
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
If we may die at any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
I say, you do have a heart!Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.