Mathematics, like a millstone, grinds everything placed under it and, just as you won't get wheat flour by grinding Deadly Nightshade, you won't get the truth from the false premises even if you cover the page with formulae...


Translated by Valerii Ilyushchenko, Quoted in V.I. Denisov and A.A. Logunov, Gravitation and Elementary Particle Physics, The Theory of Space-Time and Gravitation (p. 27), MIR Publishers. Moscow, Russia. 1983

Aleksey Krylov Quotes

Mathematics, like a millstone, grinds everything placed under it and, just as you won't get wheat flour by grinding Deadly Nightshade, you won't get...

Mathematics, like a millstone, grinds everything placed under it and, just as you won't get wheat flour by grinding Deadly Nightshade, you won't get...

Mathematics, like a millstone, grinds everything placed under it and, just as you won't get wheat flour by grinding Deadly Nightshade, you won't get...

Mathematics, like a millstone, grinds everything placed under it and, just as you won't get wheat flour by grinding Deadly Nightshade, you won't get...