English Explanatory Dictionary

alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. “Everything else is the work of man.” “Everything else is a human construct.”

Word forms

alles anderes ist Menschenwerk

Etymology

A corruption of German mathematician Leopold Kronecker's finite dictum “die ganzen Zahlen hat Gott gemacht; alles andere ist Menschenwerk” : “God made the integers; everything else is the work of man”. The reason for the addition of an "s" to "andere" ("anderes" is grammatically incorrect and not present in the German phrase) is unclear.

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