Charles Babbage Quotes About Office

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  • The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

    Character   Office   May  
    Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11
  • The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

    Wine   Men   Giving  
    Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation
  • The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

    Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England”, p.225
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Charles Babbage

  • Born: December 26, 1791
  • Died: October 18, 1871
  • Occupation: Mathematician