Ada Lovelace Quotes

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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One Liner Poet Time
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
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Feeling Genius Knowledge Study
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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Brain Mortal Show Time
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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Attention Effort Finding Increase Please Power Work
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
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Mathematics Number Possible Trouble World
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Believe Combination Discover Hide Nature Possess Quality Reality
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Engine Fly Perfection Scheme Steam
What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
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Eternal Faculty God Imagination Teaching Tolerance Tone
I am in a charming state of confusion.
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Charm Confusion One Liner State
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Engine Flower Mathematics Pattern
If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
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Giving Poet Poetry Science
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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Foolish Mathematics
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
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Harmony Intellectual Natural Religious Togetherness
$Ada Lovelace Quote - Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.$

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
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Comprehensive Fraction Mathematics Understand
I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
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Blind Brain Comfortable Doubt Faith Interfere
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
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Engine Mathematics Performance
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
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Arrangement Calculation Choose Essential Mathematics Necessary Object Reduce Time
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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Appreciation Language Mathematics Science Unconsious Unseen
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Discover Faculty Imagination Science Unseen World
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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Brain Mortal Show Time

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