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.
CHARLES BABBAGEWhat is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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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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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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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.
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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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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
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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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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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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
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A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
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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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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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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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