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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
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Employment Frame Frequency Human Production Togetherness
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
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Frequent Object Organ See Vision
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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Convey Fast Greatness Information Machine
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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Hope Mathematics Race
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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Acceptance Capability Difference Explanation Limitation Machine Tools
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.
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Collection Each Other Man Medal Praise Society Wine
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
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Death Form Head Kind Shoes Tools
The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.
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Carry Meaning Reason Small Space
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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Existence Guide Necessary Science
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
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Academics Ambition Knowledge Limitation Person Purpose
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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Appointment Discussion Exercise Money Performance Price
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God’s laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
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Control God Law Miracle Nature Order
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
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Adopt Country Influence Investigation Knowledge Principle State
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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Calculation Execution God Myself
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
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Discover Existence Kind Knowledge Man Measurement Path Step
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
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Blessing Invention Person Power Principle

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

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