--- title: "12 Operations Quotes By Ada Lovelace" description: "12 Operations quotes by Ada Lovelace. Plus more from Ada Lovelace and more Operations sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived_2361638.png" --- > [But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived-from-mathematics-more/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived_2361638.png) > [It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-may-be-desirable-to-explain-that-by-the-word-operation-we-mean-any/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/ada-lovelace-10853_definitions_it-may-be-desirable-to-explain-that-by-t_2057714.jpg) > [We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-cannot-forbear-suggesting-one-practical-result-which-it-appears-to/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/ada-lovelace-10853_attainment_we-cannot-forbear-suggesting-one-practic_1817901.png) > [Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/secondly-figures-the-symbols-of-numerical-magnitude-are-frequently/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ada-lovelace-10853_complicated_secondly-figures-the-symbols-of-numerica_435440.jpg) > [One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/one-main-reason-why-the-separate-nature-of-the-science-of-operations/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/ada-lovelace-10853_felt_one-main-reason-why-the-separate-nature_1261647.jpg) > [The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-on-the-contrary-can-either-add-subtract/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/118/ada-lovelace-10853_add_the-analytical-engine-on-the-contrary-ca_1221592.png) > [In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-abstract-mathematics-of-course-operations-alter-those-particular/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_in-abstract-mathematics-of-course-operat_2858244.png) > [In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-enabling-mechanism-to-combine-together-general-symbols-in/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ad/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_in-enabling-mechanism-to-combine-togethe_360544.png) > [In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-studying-the-action-of-the-analytical-engine-we-find-that-the/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/ada-lovelace-10853_action_in-studying-the-action-of-the-analytical_2331821.png) > [It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-were-much-to-be-desired-that-when-mathematical-processes-pass/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_it-were-much-to-be-desired-that-when-mat_2352921.png) > [ The Analytical Engine\] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-might-act-upon-other-things-besides-number-were/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_the-analytical-engine-might-act-upon-oth_728873.png) > [The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-is-an-embodying-of-the-science-of-operations/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_the-analytical-engine-is-an-embodying-of_582018.png) ## Other authors on Operations ## More by Ada Lovelace > [If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/if-you-can-t-give-me-poetry-can-t-you-give-me-poetical-science/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-ideas-which-led-to-the-analytical-engine-occurred-in-a-manner/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/those-who-incline-to-very-strictly-utilitarian-views-may-perhaps-feel/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-may-say-most-aptly-that-the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraical/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/indeed-we-may-consider-the-engine-as-the-material-and-mechanical/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/this-one-fact-implies-everything-and-it-is-scarcely-necessary-to/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions-whatever-to-originate/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-enabling-mechanism-to-combine-together-general-symbols-in/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-object-of-the-engine-is-in-fact-to-give-the-utmost-practical/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/secondly-figures-the-symbols-of-numerical-magnitude-are-frequently/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraic-patterns-just-as-the-jacquard/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-considering-any-new-subject-there-is-frequently-a-tendency-first/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [ Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of \[Babbage’s Analytical Engine\] is to give its results in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/many-persons-who-are-not-conversant-with-mathematical-studies-imagine/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/i-have-my-hopes-very-distinct-ones-too-of-one-day-getting-cerebral/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) > [It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-is-however-pretty-evident-on-general-principles-that-in-devising/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/operations/ada-lovelace/#itemlist", "name": "12 Operations Quotes By Ada Lovelace", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ada Lovelace" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived-from-mathematics-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived_2361638.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived_2361638.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived_2361638.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has…” — Ada Lovelace", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. 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