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  • Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press
  • There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

    Life on the Mississippi ch. 17 (1883)
  • I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.115, Courier Corporation
  • I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press
  • Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

    Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884
  • In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

    Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.174, Univ of California Press
  • The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

    Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”
  • I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

  • We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

    A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)
  • Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5262, Delphi Classics
  • Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

    The Bee (published 1917)
  • There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.3, Xist Publishing
  • That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Three by Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court”, p.63, Graphic Arts Books
  • Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

    Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.223, U of Nebraska Press
  • When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

  • We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8549, Delphi Classics
  • It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation
  • The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation
  • Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press
  • Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

    Mark Twain, David Ketterer (1984). “The science fiction of Mark Twain”
  • The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.98, Courier Corporation
  • I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

    Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins
  • Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

  • Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

  • There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.177, 谷月社
  • Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

    Funny  
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 26 (1884)
  • Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

    Funny  
    Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press
  • It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.425, Courier Corporation
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