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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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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.

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But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

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I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I stood upon...more

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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine the...more