Errors Using Inadequate Data Are

As Soon As An Analytical Engine Exists, It Will Necessarily Guide The Future Course Of The Science. Whenever Any Result Is Sought By Its Aid, The Question Will Then Arise — By What Course Of Calculation Can These Results Be Arrived At By The Machine In The Shortest Time?

To Those Who Have Chosen The Profession Of Medicine, A Knowledge Of Chemistry, And Of Some Branches Of Natural History, And, Indeed, Of Several Other Departments Of Science, Affords Useful Assistance.

The Proportion Between The Velocity With Which Men Or Animals Move, And The Weights They Carry, Is A Matter Of Considerable Importance, Particularly In Military Affairs.

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.

Propose To An Englishman Any Principle, Or Any Instrument, However Admirable, And You Will Observe That The Whole Effort Of The English Mind Is Directed To Find A Difficulty, A Defect, Or An Impossibility In It. If You Speak To Him Of A Machine For Peeling A Potato, He Will Pronounce It Impossible: If You Peel A Potato With It Before His Eyes, He Will Declare It Useless, Because It Will Not Slice A Pineapple.