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Long Intervals Frequently Elapse Between The Discovery Of New Principles In Science And Their Practical Application... Those Intellectual Qualifications, Which Give Birth To New Principles Or To New Methods, Are Of Quite A Different Order From Those Which Are Necessary For Their Practical Application.

There Are Few Circumstances Which So Strongly Distinguish The Philosopher, As The Calmness With Which He Can Reply To Criticisms He May Think Undeservedly Severe.

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.

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.

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