Alan Turing1912–1954Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 460.- “Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing,” (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine …
- “Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals,” section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (1938), published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, vol. 45 (1939)
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
