Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which …

Thomas Huxley
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. ✨ Geological Reform. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.
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