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.
ADA LOVELACE
If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
More Ada Lovelace Quotes
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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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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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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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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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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
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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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If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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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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I am in a charming state of confusion.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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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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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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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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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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