“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!”

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

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

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

What I’d like to be above all is a writer.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

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.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

Impossibilities will start to happen for all of us, like magic.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.

It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.