Pebble Mill

Famous quotes containing the words pebble and/or mill:

“The murmuring surge,
That on th’ unnumbered idle pebble chafes,
Cannot be heard so high.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your 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.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)