When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace. - Jules Verne

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.

But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.