“Miracles are not a breach of established laws, but indicate the existence of far higher laws.”
Charles Babbage
ScienceProgramming
Computer Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Computer Quotes
Read 200 of the best computer quotes about machines, technology, logic and calculation, from Charles Babbage, Nikola Tesla, Leibniz, Pascal and more.
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”
Henri Poincaré
ThinkingMind
“The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.”
Georg Cantor
MathematicsFreedom
“I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
Pierre de Fermat
MathematicsFunny
“Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols.”
Augustus De Morgan
SymbolsNotation
“The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.”
James Clerk Maxwell
ProbabilityLogic
“It's of no use whatsoever. This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right.”
Heinrich Hertz
DiscoveryPredictions
“What is the use of a newborn baby?”
Benjamin Franklin
InventionPotential
“Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!”
Michael Faraday
InnovationFunny
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
LearningMind
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
UnderstandingJoy
“I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.”
Rudyard Kipling
QuestionsCuriosity
“From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.”
William Shakespeare
MemoryFocus
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
Alexander Pope
ScienceDiscovery
“Small have continual plodders ever won save base authority from others' books.”
William Shakespeare
LearningOriginality
“To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and yet think we do know is a disease.”
Lao Tzu
KnowledgeHumility
“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:4)
DataWonder
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning.”
The Bible (Proverbs 1:5)
LearningWisdom
“God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom.”
The Bible (Daniel 1:17)
SkillKnowledge
“Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser.”
The Bible (Proverbs 9:9)
TeachingGrowth
“For now we see through a glass, darkly.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:12)
UnderstandingMystery
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.”
The Bible (Matthew 10:26)
PrivacyTruth
“That which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.”
The Bible (Luke 12:3)
PrivacyInformation
“But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?”
The Bible (Job 28:12)
WisdomSearch
“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
FutureVision