Jules Verne

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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise

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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken

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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth

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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything