Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In asking me to contribute a mite to the memorial to Gutenberg you give me pleasure and do me honor. The world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
