Ability Quote by Charles Babbage

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

— Charles Babbage

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

— Charles Babbage

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting…

— Charles Babbage

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to…

— 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…

— 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…

— Charles Babbage

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those…

— Charles Babbage

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on…

— Charles Babbage

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head,…

— Charles Babbage

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a…

— Charles Babbage

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination,…

— Charles Babbage