“The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calcula...” — Ada Lovelace Quote

“The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.”

“In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.”

“I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.”

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”

“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”

“I shall, in due time, be a Poet.”

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”

“The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.”

“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”

“One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”