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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Quote by Charles Babbage about concentration, difficulties, science, country

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Quote by William Falconer about corruption, numbers, consequences, measure, moral

Putting is like wisdom partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Quote by Arnold Palmer about gifts, experience, wisdom

Sciences changes not through linear accumulation of data, information, but through sudden leaps, through abrupte breaks, through scientific revolutions.

Quote by Thomas Kuhn about science