Charles Babbage Quote

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.


Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes (ed. 1830)


No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances...

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances...

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances...

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances...