Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGEThe 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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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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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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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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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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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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