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| Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth |  |
| "Axel," replied the Professor with perfect coolness, "our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage." | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
| "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." | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
| " . . . as long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life." | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
