Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
ADA LOVELACEImagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
ADA LOVELACEThe intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
ADA LOVELACEAs soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
ADA LOVELACEI 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 LOVELACEThe Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
ADA LOVELACEThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
ADA LOVELACEI am in a charming state of confusion.
ADA LOVELACEThe more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
ADA LOVELACEI was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
ADA LOVELACEI shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACEOne essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
ADA LOVELACEUnderstand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
ADA LOVELACEThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACEI don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
ADA LOVELACEForget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
ADA LOVELACEIf you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
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