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.

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 relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.

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

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms have a shifting meaning, independent sets of considerations are liable to become complicated together, and reasoning and results are frequently falsified.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

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