Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Quotes By Charles Babbage
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England is not an...
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Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.
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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...
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the...
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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...
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It will be readily admitted that a degree conferred by an university ought...
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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...
Quotes About Knowledge
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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are...
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Here class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes...
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a...
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before...
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I have witnessed how education opens doors and I know that when sound...
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I wanted to contribute my time myself my knowledge my love because Haiti...
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There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting...
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Golf is about knowledge and studying another player - more than listening to...
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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting...