Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
CHARLES BABBAGEAnother mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
More Charles Babbage Quotes
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
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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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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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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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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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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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The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
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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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The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
CHARLES BABBAGE