Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. I
Edgar Poe has said, always to reckon with the unforeseen, the unexpected, the inconceivable, which have a very large share (in those affairs), and chance ought always to be a matter of strict calculat...
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so;...Truly, would you not for less than that go arou...
Almighty God! enough! enough!
Why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.
The coast, irregular
The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurunga...
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The...
Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
La science, mon garçon, est faite d’erreurs, mais d’erreurs qu’il est bon de commettre, car elles mènent peu à peu à la vérité.
Je crois donc que lorsque les gisements de houille seront épuisés, on chauffera et on se chauffera avec de l'eau. L'eau est le charbon de l'avenir. —
It is never worth while to do anything by halves.
It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, f...
Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest
Al orgullo, principio de todos los vicios, no es posible oponer ningún raciocinio, puesto que, por su misma naturaleza, el orgullo se niega a escucharlo.
Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a st...
¿cómo esos niños abandonados a sí mismos y no teniendo más víveres que los existentes en el barco, proveerían a las necesidades de la existencia? Si fuese continente, dado que no podría ser otro que e...
What darkness to you is light to me
The young man left his uncle's office, eyes filled with tears; yet he braced himself against dispair. 'I have no more than a single day of freedom,' he mused, 'at least I shall spend it as I please; I...