Ocupation: Author
Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
Birthday: November 30
Death: April 21
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.
source: Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.87, Univ of California Press
topic: Men, Museums, Machines, British Museum