The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGEWhat is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
More Charles Babbage Quotes
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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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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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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.
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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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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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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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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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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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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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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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The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
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Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
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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.
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Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
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