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 capabilitie…

- Camille Flammarion

The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, …

- Camille Flammarion

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; it…

- Camille Flammarion

What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling i…

- Camille Flammarion

May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is no…

- Camille Flammarion

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

- Camille Flammarion

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and,…

- Camille Flammarion

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

- Camille Flammarion

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, J…

- Camille Flammarion