I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
ADA LOVELACE
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
More Ada Lovelace Quotes
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
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What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
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The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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I am in a charming state of confusion.
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Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
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I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
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