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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 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 BABBAGE

Chemistry Choice History Knowledge Medicine Natural Professional Science
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
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Destroy Difficult Estimate Intellectual Loss Misery Person Time Work
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Data Errors Information
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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Blessing Invention Person Power Principle
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Better Criticism Science
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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Animal Frequent Machine Power Simplicity Tools
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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Important Performance Person Principle Work
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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Economy Human Machine Time
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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Absence Errors Fact Reason Result Rise True
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Acceptance Capability Difference Explanation Limitation Machine Tools
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.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Academics Ambition Knowledge Limitation Person Purpose
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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Accurate Degree Devotion Greatness Person Time
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Calculation Execution God Myself
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.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Death Form Head Kind Shoes Tools
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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Collection Each Other Man Medal Praise Society Wine
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Element Knowledge Man School University Young

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.

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