Mark Twain Quotes About Creation

• What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Men, Monkeys

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

• Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Science, Parent

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.223, U of Nebraska Press

• You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Silly, Should Have

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.180, Diderot Publishing

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