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Quotes by Charles Babbage
- 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.
- 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.
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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