Charles Babbage Quotes

• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

  Charles Babbage

  Guides, Courses, Engines

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Mathematical Logic

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• En dos ocasiones me han preguntado: "Oiga, señor Babbage, si introduce en la máquina cifras erróneas, ¿saldrán las respuestas correctas?" No soy capaz de comprender correctamente el tipo de confusión de ideas que podría provocar tal pregunta.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Discovery, Add

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

  Charles Babbage

  Tools, Increase, Wells

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Names, Empty

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.1, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

  Charles Babbage

  Blessed, Science, Principles

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.18

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• I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

  Charles Babbage

  Math, Wish, Statistics

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

  Charles Babbage

  Writing, Ambition, Mean

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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

  Charles Babbage

  Criticism, Would Be, Should

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.9

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• Proponed a un inglés cualquier principio o cualquier instrumento, por admirable que sea, y observaréis que todo el esfuerzo de la mente inglesa se dirige a encontrarle una dificultad, un defecto o una imposibilidad. Si le hablas de una máquina para pelar una patata, la declarará imposible: si pelas una patata con ella ante sus ojos, la declarará inútil, porque no cortará una piña.

  Charles Babbage

  Eye, Effort, Mind

  Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”

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• A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, School, Science

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Analysis, Development

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• Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

  Charles Babbage

  Strong, Men, Numbers

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

  Charles Babbage

  Age, Great Inventions, Looks

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.21

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• An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

  Charles Babbage

  Knowing, Vision, Defects

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.210

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• Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  Charles Babbage

  Light, Order, Velocity

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.31

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• 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.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Errors, Data

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.156

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• En matemáticas hace tiempo que hemos tirado de la rienda, y entregado una carrera sin esperanza.

  Charles Babbage

  Race, Long, Hopeless

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8

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• 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.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Principles, Division

  1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

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• The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

  Charles Babbage

  Effort, Doe, Force

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.30

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• Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Break Through

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

  Charles Babbage

  Wealth, Source, Process

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

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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

  Animal, Simple, Hands

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.4

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