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May 31, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF CHARLES BABBAGE | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

GREAT QUOTES OF CHARLES BABBAGE


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. - Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. - Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. - Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. - Charles Babbage

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. - Charles Babbage

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. - Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. - Charles Babbage

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. - Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. - Charles Babbage

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. - Charles Babbage

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. - Charles Babbage

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. - Charles Babbage

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. - Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. - Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. - Charles Babbage

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. - Charles Babbage

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. - Charles Babbage

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. - Charles Babbage

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

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. - Charles Babbage

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. - Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. - Charles Babbage

GREAT QUOTES OF WRIGHT BROTHERS | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF WRIGHT BROTHERS


1. “If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio.” - Wilbur Wright.

2. “The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.” - Orville Wright.

3. “The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.” - Wilbur Wright.

4. “No bird soars in a calm.” - Wilbur Wright.

5. 'If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can’t I?' - Wright Brothers.

6. “The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall.” - Wright Brothers.

7. “There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings. More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost if you can conceive of such a combination.” - Wright Brothers.

8. “For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.” -Wright Brothers.

9. 'We figured that Lilienthal in five years of time had spent only about five hours in actual gliding through the air. The wonder was not that he had done so little, but that he had accomplished so much'. - Wright Brothers.

10. “It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.” - Wright Brothers.

GREAT QUOTES OF HENRY FORD | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF HENRY FORD


“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” -  Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.” - Henry Ford

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” - Henry Ford

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” - Henry Ford

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” - Henry Ford

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” - Henry Ford

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” - Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” - Henry Ford

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” - Henry Ford

“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....” - Henry Ford

GREAT QUOTES OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL


When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. - Alexander Graham Bell

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. - Alexander Graham Bell

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. - Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. = Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home. - Alexander Graham Bell

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. - Alexander Graham Bell

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired. - Alexander Graham Bell

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed. - Alexander Graham Bell

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length. - Alexander Graham Bell

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment. - Alexander Graham Bell

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands. - Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. - Alexander Graham Bell

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. - Alexander Graham Bell

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation. - Alexander Graham Bell

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. - Alexander Graham Bell

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says. - Alexander Graham Bell

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there. - Alexander Graham Bell

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work. - Alexander Graham Bell

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. - Alexander Graham Bell

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. - Alexander Graham Bell

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem. - Alexander Graham Bell

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics. - Alexander Graham Bell

GREAT QUOTES OF NIKOLA TESLA | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF NIKOLA TESLA


“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” - Nikola Tesla

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own” - Nikola Tesla

“Of all things, I liked books best.” - Nikola Tesla

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” - Nikola Tesla

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - Nikola Tesla

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” - Nikola Tesla

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” - Nikola Tesla

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” - Nikola Tesla

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.” - Nikola Tesla

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.” - Nikola Tesla

“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...” - Nikola Tesla

GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS EDISON | GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF INVENTORS
GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS EDISON


** Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.

** Learn with both your head and hands.

** Not everything of value in life comes from books - experience the world.

** Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature.

1."Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

2. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

3."There is no substitute for hard work."

4. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

5. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

6. "What you are will show in what you do."

7. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

8. "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

9. "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

10. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

11. "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." 12. "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."