Quotes by Twain, Mark

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is >>

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, fe >>

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at secon >>

Quotations about Discovery

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could >>

What has become clear to you since we last met? >>

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. >>

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea.

Twain, Mark