Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
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.
More Ada Lovelace Quotes
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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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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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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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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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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 am in a charming state of confusion.
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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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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 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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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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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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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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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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Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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