- [last lines]
- Josef Cartier: The report is out. They're getting ugly. This hoax rumor's gotten out to them.
- Jules Verne: I've received telegraphic queries on that from New York. Apparently, the morning newspapers, they have implied that nobody was aboard the Columbiad.
- Josef Cartier: So I heard, but the devil of it is that we'll never be able to prove it.
- Jules Verne: Of course we will.
- Aldo Von Metz: They haven't even been sighted since the meteor shower.
- Jules Verne: You begin to doubt too, Mr. Von Metz?
- Aldo Von Metz: Yes, I think Victor Barbicane is no longer alive. Do you?
- Jules Verne: I am certain he's alive. The trouble with scientists is, Mr. Von Metz, that they only deal with facts.
- Aldo Von Metz: [grunts] And what do you deal with, Mr. Jules Verne?
- Jules Verne: [staring straight into the camera] Something much more real than facts. Imagination, Mr. Von Metz.
- Virginia Nicholl: You know if ... if this hadn't have happened, we ... we should probably all die in our beds, old and forgotten, but now we shall die like a star, like a flare of light against the sky. If one must die, that's the way, isn't it?
- Victor Barbicane: Virginia, if we should come safely back to Earth ... if there should be future voyages to follow this one, I shall always insist on having one woman among my passengers. One woman ... for courage.