Miracles May Be, For Anything We Know

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.

Trimming Consists Of Clipping Off Little Bits Here And There From Those Observations Which Differ Most In Excess From The Mean, And In Sticking Them Onto Those Which Are Too Small; A Species Of 'equitable Adjustment,' As A Radical Would Term It, Which Cannot Be Admitted In Science.

Science In England Is Not A Profession: Its Cultivators Are Scarcely Recognised Even As A Class. Our Language Itself Contains No Single Term By Which Their Occupation Can Be Expressed. We Borrow A Foreign Word [savant] From Another Country Whose High Ambition It Is To Advance Science, And Whose Deeper Policy, In Accord With More Generous Feelings, Gives To The Intellectual Labourer Reward And Honour, In Return For Services Which Crown The Nation With Imperishable Renown, And Ultimately Enrich The Human Race.

For One Person Who Is Blessed With The Power Of Invention, Many Will Always Be Found Who Have The Capacity Of Applying Principles.

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.