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- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or…
- 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…
- 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…
- Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more…
- 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…
- 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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