The Blood of Goats will Shatter Diamonds

                                                          Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippos,

                                                                  c. 330 BC, with modern alabaster mantle

Aristotle once said that the fresh warm blood of a goat would shatter a diamond.  It's a famous quote, but why I don't know.  I can't find what it means on google.  

It's nonsense, is it not?  Diamonds don't shatter.  They can only be cut with diamond precision tools, certainly not a liquid.  

What did Aristotle mean?  

How would anyone test this?  Diamonds aren't readily available.  Who would kill a goat and pour its blood over a diamond.  

This is just nonsense.  We don't have the context that Aristotle was using.  Maybe he was using it as a simile.  

Trying to empty the ocean of salt is akin to shattering a diamond with the fresh warm blood of a goat.

Well?