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“The days are numbered for those bums over in England."
German Tank commander”
― Operation Sea Lion: The Failed Nazi Invasion that Turned the Tide of War
German Tank commander”
― Operation Sea Lion: The Failed Nazi Invasion that Turned the Tide of War
“He was one of those many people without a natural sense of left and right, and he made a little red spot on his left thumb, which he called ‘the knowing spot”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
“In 1950 he was hardly likely to be on trial for heresy. But he certainly felt himself up against an irrational, superstitious barrier, and his predisposition was to defy”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
“messages from the unseen” that the great Alan Turing left behind at his death: Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
― Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
― Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
“He was briefly a member of the Home Guard, but got bored of it in 1942 and stopped turning up. The commander tried to frighten him with military law, only to find that on his application form under the question: ‘do you understand that by enrolling in the Home Guard you place yourself liable to military law?’ Turing had written ‘No’.”
― Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma
― Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma
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