Perhaps It Would Be Better For Science,

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.

Perhaps It Would Be Better For Science, That All Criticism Should Be Avowed.

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.

The First Steps In The Path Of Discovery, And The First Approximate Measures, Are Those Which Add Most To The Existing Knowledge Of Mankind.

On Two Occasions I Have Been Asked, 'pray, Mr. Babbage, If You Put Into The Machine Wrong Figures, Will The Right Answers Come Out?' I Am Not Able Rightly To Apprehend The Kind Of Confusion Of Ideas That Could Provoke Such A Question.