Mark Twain on Science
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #179199: "Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #78990: "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to…"
2 Quotes by Mark Twain on Science
"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."