Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.
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while he and John Herschel were proofreading mathematical tables for the Astronomical Society in 1821.
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
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