As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. 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.

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

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

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

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