The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.
CHARLES BABBAGEI have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
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Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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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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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
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Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God’s laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
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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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