That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
CHARLES BABBAGETo 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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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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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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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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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.
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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.
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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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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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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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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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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.
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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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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.
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