Calculating Quote by George Iles

“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.” quote by George Iles — Download Open image

“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”

George Iles

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Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

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Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

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We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

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“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

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When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

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No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

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Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

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Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

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