Workmanship Quotes (2)

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
Lecture 'Discoveries and Inventions', (1860) in Discoveries and Inventions (1915).
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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' (1869). In Collected Essays (1894), Vol. 8, 333.
See also:  |  Data (24)  |  Formula (16)  |  Mathematics (221)  |  Mill (2)

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