Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
“What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.”
The Year of the Jackpot (p. 644)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Autobiographical Dictation (1906).
Variant: The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.
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Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Source: Van Gogh
“The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Autobiographical Dictation (1906)