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Danh ngôn của Charles Babbage (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
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.