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Been Quotes by Charles Babbage
- On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I…
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
- That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been…
- I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,
- The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country…
- 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…
- Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and…
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