We live in a golden age, Fogg. Everything worth discovering has been discovered. Yet ridiculous dreamers like you insist on a past filled with "dinosaurs" and "evolution", and on a future filled with "motorized vehicles", "radio waves" and "flying machines".
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Lord Kelvin What's the point in hiring a corrupt inspector if he can't even abuse the law properly?!
Lord Kelvin This is the Royal Academy of Science! We don't need to prove anything! Besides, by the time you get out of jail, you'll have lost this wager.
Passepartout We are not giving up! I almost died! You almost died! We take the next ship and win that bet!
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