Charles Babbage Quotes About Ambition

• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

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  Charles Babbage

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.29

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• I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

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  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

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  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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