The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed… — 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… — 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
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the… — 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… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and… — 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,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science:… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a… — 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
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has… — 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… — 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
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