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
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — 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