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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
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"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"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."
"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."
"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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