Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas' cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. - Thomas H. Huxley

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Thomas H. Huxley: "Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas' cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."

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Degree	Depends	Exquisite	Extract
Fineness	Flour	Formulae	Grandest
Grinds	Loose	Mathematics	Mill
Nevertheless	Pages	Peas	Result
Stuff	Wheat	Workmanship	World
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