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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage

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
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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Convey Fast Greatness Information Machine
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
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Economy Instrument Science
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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Hope Mathematics Race
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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Light Necessary Order Time Work
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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Age Education Fact Greatness Invention Production University
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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Accurate Degree Devotion Greatness Person Time
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Possession Source Wealth
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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Existence Guide Necessary Science
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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Authority Decline Expression Myself Opinion Science
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
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Education Impression Man Pursue Pursuit Science Sex Taste
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Data Errors Information
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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Control God Law Miracle Nature Order
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
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Absence Errors Fact Reason Result Rise True
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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Appointment Discussion Exercise Money Performance Price
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
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Calm Criticism Deserve Philosophy Strong

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