When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

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

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.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

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.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.