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Science Quotes by Charles Babbage
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is…
- 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…
- You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is…
- 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…
- 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…
- The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,…
- 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…
- 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…
- As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction…
- 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…
- 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…
- Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
- A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
- The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to…
- For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
- Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and…
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