I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
Mark TwainMany public-school children seem to know only two datesโ1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
Mark TwainThat 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