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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers…
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular…
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall…
— William Whewell
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Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret…
— Michael Faraday
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that…
— Gottlob Frege
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
— Annie Dillard
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When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
— Leslie Lamport
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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching,…
— Niklaus Wirth
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