7th January 2008, 8:33 PM
Well actually yeah. He's actually very well educated, unlike Mr Wizard who, while still doing a good job at educating people about science, was still an actor more than anything else.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)