Baskets Quote by Charles Babbage Download Open image “What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.” — Charles Babbage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baskets Empty Names Science
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Few things can not be named they are just there ..... unknown yet BIG PART of your life — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you. — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you.… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today,… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image