From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon Quotes

“I much prefer the old-fashioned comparisons of the Double Liegeois, which inform you simply: the Sun is a pumpkin, two feet in diameter, Jupiter an orange, Saturn a love-apple, Neptune a black cherry, Uranus a smaller cherry, the Earth a bean, Venus a pea, Mars a large pin's head, Mercury a mustard seed, and Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas mere grains of sand. One can understand that sort of thing.”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

“26 minutes well employed are better worth than 26 years of idleness. A few seconds of Newton or Pascal are more precious than the whole lifetime of the general run of fools.”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

“Much may be done in twenty-six minutes. The gravest questions of morals and politics may be discussed, and even solved”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

“Divisions and multiplications extrapolated beneath his fingers.”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon