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Quotation from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 17 (Project Gutenberg #245)

Portrait of Mark Twain

After computing that the Lower Mississippi will shrink to a mile and three-quarters in 742 years, Twain mocks reckless extrapolation.

Citation: "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 17 (Project Gutenberg #245). (id life-on-the-mississippi-q6)

Portrait: Life on the Mississippi, Unknown, Public domain.

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