Charles Babbage Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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). "Ciencia y reforma: Selected Works of Charles Babbage", p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• A cada aumento de los conocimientos, así como a la invención de cada nueva herramienta, el trabajo humano se reduce.

  Charles Babbage

  Herramientas, Aumento, Pozos

  Charles Babbage (1832). "Sobre la economía de las máquinas y las manufacturas", 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tal vez el principio más importante del que depende la economía de una manufactura sea la división del trabajo entre las personas que lo realizan.

  Charles Babbage

  Importante, Principios, División

  1832 Sobre la economía de la maquinaria y las manufacturas.

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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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• 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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• If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.

  Charles Babbage

  Ignorance, Law, Miracle

  "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher". Book by Charles Babbage, 1864.

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• There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.

  Charles Babbage

  Miracle, Events, Doe

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.476, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Certain, University

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

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• Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

  Charles Babbage

  Fall, Weight, Arise

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.9

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