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. - Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country.

"Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?"

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.