Happy Birthday Mark Twain

Today is Mark Twain's 176th Birthday. The famous American author of many classics such as Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Hucklberry Finn also made some interesting comments on mathematics and learning;

"We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years."

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)