The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of an….

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a re….

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysi….

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those op….

It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are freque….

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its resul….

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers..

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction ….

It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relat….

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for….

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as….

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or th….

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondl….

In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influenc….

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the ….

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform..

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be..

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand..

We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine or….

The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations ….