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Comment author: Kyre 07 November 2012 04:51:30AM 3 points [-]

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.

Charles Babbage

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 November 2012 05:30:24AM *  -2 points [-]

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.

I suppose we don't know if this is true, since it doesn't yet exist. BTW, what has this to do with rationality?

Comment author: scav 08 November 2012 12:29:05PM 12 points [-]

It was a fairly audacious prediction, that turns out to have been true. I think it's fair to allow Babbage to describe as an analytical engine what we would nowadays call a "computer".

Comment author: JoachimSchipper 07 November 2012 07:23:34AM 4 points [-]

Computers have revolutionized most fields of science. I take it as a general "yay science/engineer/computers" quote.

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