Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

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.

Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.