Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

The supernatural does not exist.

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night…

— Camille Flammarion

“Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does…

— Camille Flammarion

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

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

— 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, as…

— Camille Flammarion

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed…

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become…

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Camille Flammarion

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does…

— Camille Flammarion

If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those…

— Camille Flammarion