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

Charles Babbage
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  1. Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

  2. 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…

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

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