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The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Charles Babbage

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.

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

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Born: December 26, 1791

Died: October 18, 1871 (aged 79)

Bio: Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.

Known for:

On the economy of machinery and manufactures (1832)
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837)
The works of Charles Babbage
Science and Reform

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knowledge, science, nature, laws, man, machine, time, evidence, human, machinery, event, existence, public, miracle, creator

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