Charles Babbage Quote

The first step in the use of every instrument is to find the limits within which its employer can measure the same object under the same circumstances. It is only from knowledge of this that he can have confidence in his measures of the same object under different circumstances, and after that, of different objects under different circumstances.


Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, And on Some of Its, Causes, Chapter V (p. 172)


The first step in the use of every instrument is to find the limits within which its employer can measure the same object under the same...

The first step in the use of every instrument is to find the limits within which its employer can measure the same object under the same...

The first step in the use of every instrument is to find the limits within which its employer can measure the same object under the same...

The first step in the use of every instrument is to find the limits within which its employer can measure the same object under the same...