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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.

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.

In Mathematical Science, More Than In All Others, It Happens That Truths Which Are At One Period The Most Abstract, And Apparently The Most Remote From All Useful Application, Become In The Next Age The Bases Of Profound Physical Inquiries, And In The Succeeding One, Perhaps, By Proper Simplification And Reduction To Tables, Furnish Their Ready And Daily Aid To The Artist And The Sailor.

In England, The Profession Of The Law Is That Which Seems To Hold Out The Strongest Attraction To Talent, From The Circumstance, That In It Ability, Coupled With Exertion, Even Though Unaided By Patronage, Cannot Fail Of Obtaining Reward.

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.