Quote by Charles Babbage
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. – Charles Babbage

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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. – Charles Babbage

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Science
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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. – Charles Babbage

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power
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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

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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. – Max Planck

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There is no gravity. The earth sucks. – Graffito

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Science

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. – Hilaire Belloc

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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Proverb

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. – Donald Cargill

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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. – Francis Quarles

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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