Charles Babbage Quotes about Effort

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Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Charles Babbage

Eye, Effort, Mind

Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Charles Babbage

Effort, Doe, Force

Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.30

Charles Babbage Quotes about Effort

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