Charles Babbage on art
Charles Babbage48 quotes“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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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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage 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 BabbageCharles 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.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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