Charles Babbage's Quotes

Charles Babbage's Quotes 15

That science has long been neglected and declining in England is not an...

Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.

A powerful attraction exists therefore to the promotion of a study and of...

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then...

A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the...

There is however another purpose to which academies contribute. When they...

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence...

Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country...

It will be readily admitted that a degree conferred by an university ought...

At each increase of knowledge as well as on the contrivance of every new...

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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing...

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine a knowledge of chemistry...

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of...

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect...

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the...