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

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

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

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

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

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

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.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

Don't forget to thank everyday for the good things in life. They can disappear in the blink of an eye.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.