69 Quotes by 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.

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

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.

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

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

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.

I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.