The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — 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
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
![“The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.” quote by Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb5/charles-babbage-8461_chemicals_the-influence-of-electricity-in-producin_1447735.jpg)
![“That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.” quote by Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/584/charles-babbage-8461_attention_that-a-country-england-eminently-disting_2538969.jpg)
![“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.” quote by Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b12/charles-babbage-8461_accord_science-in-england-is-not-a-profession-i_256777.jpg)
