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“God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to get on with itself.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world. That question was, as it were, always left for someone else to tackle.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game