"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."

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Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Charles Babbage

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“Nature is always wise in every part.”
“Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.”
“Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.”
“Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.”

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