Ada Lovelace Quotes: Epitome of Inspiration for Modern Science

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. – Ada Lovelace.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. – Ada Lovelace.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. – Ada Lovelace.

Religion to me is science, and science is religion. – Ada Lovelace.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. – Ada Lovelace.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. – Ada Lovelace.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis? – Ada Lovelace.

In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for purposes of a calculating engine. – Ada Lovelace.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. – Ada Lovelace.

It might be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. – Ada Lovelace.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind, and my extensive & deep, & multiform knowledge, and original powers of mind. – Ada Lovelace.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; As time will show.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis.

It might take some of the supposed glory out of the invention were I to tell you the same idea occurred to some of the mathematical masters of our own land, who did not make known their views because they had not, like myself, a machine at their disposal.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Analytical Engines have…the ability to do whatever we know how to order them to perform.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency to overlook principles in favor of details.

Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things.

I wish to add my tribute to the unending one of those who have admired and loved the most beautiful Ada.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both theory and practice.

My observations are made in the hopes of simplifying and unifying the treatment of different problems.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans? everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Imagination is the discovering faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of science.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

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

My observation is that although women may be more clever, men are more genius.

While my brain looks like the brain of a man. I have multiplied mentally a one digit number by 7000 and was right.

I can throw rays of light into many a phenomenon, that others not decompose.