Charles Babbage Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• 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.

  Charles Babbage

  Character, Office, May

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11

• The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

  Charles Babbage

  Office, Church, Clergymen

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England”, p.225

• The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

  Charles Babbage

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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