gently expressed a doubt whether the plan was possible, to … - Allan G Bromley

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gently expressed a doubt whether the plan was possible, to which I replied that, not being able to prove its impossibility, I should follow out a slight glimmering of light which I thought I perceived.

Allan G Bromley

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the greatest obstacles to the acquisition of knowledge — inasmuch as he possesses the consciousness that he does not know — and he has the moral courage to avow it.

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

Em duas ocasiões me perguntaram: 'Diga-nos, Sr. Babbage, se introduzirmos dados errados na máquina, ainda sairão respostas corretas?' Eu não consigo compreender o tipo de confusão de ideias que motivou tal questão.

gently expressed a doubt whether the plan was possible, to which I replied that, not being able to prove its impossibility, I should follow out a sli… - Allan G Bromley

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