Jennings Mill

Famous quotes containing the words jennings and/or mill:

    McCoy: That shark’s been following us ever since the surgeon died, waiting for the burial. Couldn’t I have a musket to shoot it, sir?
    Fletcher Christian: Take the deck, McCoy. I’ll get the keys to the arms chest.
    McCoy: Get two muskets, sir. I’d like to shoot that shark on board.
    —Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

    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 peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)