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“The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.”

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage, born on December 26, 1791 and died on October 18, 1871, was a renowned British mathematician, inventor, and engineer, often referred to as the 'father of computers'. He made significant contributions in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and mechanical engineering, and his designs of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine laid the foundation for the development of computer science. more

“The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.”

Art Successful Masters Keys Depends Tools Perfection Machines Construction Employed Machinery

Book:Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings

Source: Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings

“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”

Has Beens Certain Church Office Filled University Ill Connected Appropriate Portions Clergymen Professorship

Book:The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

Source: The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.”