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Full Idea
Though analysis gives us the truth, and nothing but the truth, yet it can never give us the whole truth
Gist of Idea
Analysis gives us nothing but the truth - but never the whole truth
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §138)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.141