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From Quotes by Charles Babbage
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of…
- In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes…
- 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…
- Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule…
- Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of…
- It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and…
- Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit…
- In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it…
- Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles…
- Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them…
- A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
- The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true…
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