Quotes from Camille Flammarion

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

The supernatural does not exist.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Le Verrier —without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

the present is but a door through which the future rushes to the past.

météorites, Le galvanisme, La circulation du sang, La vaccine, L'ondulation de la lumière, Le paratonnerre, Le daguerréotype, La vapeur, L'hélice, Les paquebots, Les chemins de fer, L'éclairage au gaz, Le magnétisme, Et le reste, À ceux, vivants et à naître, qui font de même Dans le présent, Et feront de même dans l'avenir.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.