It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

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.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

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.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.