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When I told the people of Northen Ireland that I was atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said: Yes, but it is the God of the Catholicsor the God of Protestants in whom you don't belive.

Quote by Quentin Crisp about god, atheism, woman, people, contentment

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to man french and to my horse -German.

Quote by Charles I al Spaniei about humor, god, man

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds of all the poets now writing dropped dead suddenly, the loss to literature wold not be great.

CQuote by Charles Osburne about art, poets, literature, writing

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.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, tools, power

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

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, fall, power

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

Quote by Charles Babbage about knowledge, tools, human imperfections

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

Quote by Charles Babbage about mathematics, error

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Quote by Charles Babbage about mathematics

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, use

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.

Quote by Charles Babbage about education, science

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, criticism, science

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Quote by Charles Babbage about heads, death

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Quote by Charles Babbage about genius, knowledge, country, good, good luck

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

Quote by Charles Babbage

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.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, authority, science

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Quote by Charles Babbage about influence, principle, knowledge, state, country

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Quote by Charles Babbage about concentration, difficulties, science, country

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.

Quote by Charles Babbage about tools, limits

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

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, human imperfections, time

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Quote by Charles Babbage about force, police, human imperfections