Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Inspiring Ada Lovelace quotes will make you think about love, life, nature, science, ideas, and mathematics.
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Most Famous Ada Lovelace Quotes
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. Ada Lovelace
Religion to me is science, and science is religion
I am more than ever now the bride of science. Religion to me is science, and science is religion. Ada Lovelace
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.
I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable. Ada Lovelace
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus My course is so clear and obvious that it is delightful to think how straight it is. Ada Lovelace
I am in a charming state of confusion.
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers. Ada Lovelace
I am much pleased to find how well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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 the purposes of a calculating engine. Ada Lovelace
I am quite thunder-struck at the power of the writing. It is especially unlike a woman’s style surely; but neither can I compare it with any man’s exactly.
It may 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. This is the most general definition and would include all subjects in the universe. 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.
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 can only end by repeating what I have often said before, that I am very troublesome, & only wish I could do you any such service as you are doing me.
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back. Ada Lovelace
I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work and how my powers of attention and continued effort increase. Ada Lovelace
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Thus not only the mental and the material but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other. Ada Lovelace
I have a peculiar way of learning and I think it must it must be a peculiar man to teach me successfully.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. 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 about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc etc.
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have a perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. Ada Lovelace
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. Ada Lovelace
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. Ada Lovelace
If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able to fully appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious. 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 the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. Ada Lovelace
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
I must tell you what my opinion of my own mind and powers is exactly I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me preeminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. Ada Lovelace
In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labor in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried than they are. Ada Lovelace
It may 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. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.
I do not believe that my father was or ever could have been such a Poet as I shall be an Analyst; & Metaphysician for with me the two go together indissolubly. Ada Lovelace
If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? Ada Lovelace
its multitudinous Charlatans everything in short but
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 about the many connections and relations which occur to me. Ada Lovelace
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. Ada Lovelace
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Religion to me is science and science is religion. Ada Lovelace
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language are 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. Ada Lovelace
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
I am quite thunder-struck at the power of the writing. It is especially unlike a woman’s style surely; but neither can I compare it with any man’s exactly. Ada Lovelace
Religion to me is science, and science is religion
The purpose which that engine has been specially intended and adapted to fulfill, is the computation of nautical and astronomical tables. Ada Lovelace
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere ‘calculating machines.’ It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
