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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Charles Babbage

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
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Destroy Difficult Estimate Intellectual Loss Misery Person Time Work
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
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Discover Existence Kind Knowledge Man Measurement Path Step
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Better Desire Myself Strength Work Writing
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
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Character Legal Person Public
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 alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
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Advantage Country Direction Distance Manufacture Production Science Skills
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 will necessarily guide the future course of science.
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Capability Development Execution Future Guide Machine Necessary Operation Science
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
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Death Form Head Kind Shoes Tools
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
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Art Civilization Country Hope Prosperity Strength Success Victory War
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
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Animal Frequent Machine Power Simplicity Tools
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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Better Criticism Science
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Hope Mathematics Race
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 of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Connection Discussion Evidence Existence Fact Knowledge Science
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Acceptance Capability Difference Explanation Limitation Machine Tools
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Blessing Invention Person Power Principle
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Fall Mode Power Rise
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 incapable of estimating it.
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Country Estimate Future Live Praise

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