You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

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

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.