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Knowledge Quotes by Charles Babbage
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,…
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it…
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle…
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an…
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other…
- 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…
- The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
- Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence…
- Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction…
- That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments…
- A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
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