Charles Babbage - Science and Reform

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Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

Charles Babbage

To examine the varied relations of necessary truth, and to trace through its successive developments, the simple principle to its ultimate result, is the peculiar province of Mathematical Analysis.

Charles Babbage

The golden age of mathematical literature is undoubtedly past.

Charles Babbage