"Science in England is not a profession: its……" — Charles Babbage
"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 their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race."
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Charles Babbage
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62 Quotes by Charles Babbage
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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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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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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