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Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.