“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see…” Alan Turing

Science 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.
- Religion
- Science
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
“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 …
- Computers
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two faculties, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
“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)
- Science
- Thinking

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