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

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.

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.

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.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

There is no insurmountable solitude.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.