Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
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