Charles Babbage Quotes

Over 150000 Famous Quotes

browse by authors:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Home > Authors: B > Charles Babbage Quotes

Charles Babbage

Birthday: December 26, 1792
Deathday: October 18, 1871
Category: English Mathematician
Type: Mathematician
National: English

Rate:

Hits: 3

link to us:
Link for Email and IM:	Link for website and blogs:

Similar Authors

Douglas Adams
George Stephenson
William Dampier
Lewis Carroll
Al Alvarez
Alexander Pope
Charles Tennyson Turner
Bernie Taupin
Vivien Leigh
Susan Blackmore
Bill Nighy
Richard Cowper
Margaret Sackville
Edward Gibbon
Evelyn Waugh

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a...

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it...

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

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the...

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using...

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new...

In England, the profession of the law is that which...

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and...

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to...

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion...

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by...

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage,...

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism...

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending...

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good...

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with...

That science has long been neglected and declining in England,...

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert...

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed...

The difference between a tool and a machine is not...

The economy of human time is the next advantage of...

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame...

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up...

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes...

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals...

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

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher,...

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

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by...

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a...

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in...

© 2009 A to Z "Quotes"