Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
ADA LOVELACEWhat 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.
More Ada Lovelace Quotes
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I 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.
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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 am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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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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If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
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I am in a charming state of confusion.
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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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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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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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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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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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The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
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