George Bernard Shaw Quotes

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

George Bernard Shaw

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• To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fingers
  • Mathematician
  • Bushman