For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

CHARLES BABBAGE

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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.

Charles Babbage

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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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Convey Fast Greatness Information Machine
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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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.

CHARLES BABBAGE

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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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

CHARLES BABBAGE

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

CHARLES BABBAGE

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
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Chemistry Choice History Knowledge Medicine Natural Professional Science
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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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.

CHARLES BABBAGE

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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There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
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Calm Criticism Deserve Philosophy Strong
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

CHARLES BABBAGE

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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Existence Guide Necessary Science
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

CHARLES BABBAGE

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Blessing Invention Person Power Principle
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

CHARLES BABBAGE

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

CHARLES BABBAGE

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
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Art Construction Employment Industry Key Machine Perfection Possession Success Tools
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

CHARLES BABBAGE

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
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Knowledge Possession Public Quantity University
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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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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An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

CHARLES BABBAGE

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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