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The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

— Alan Turing Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954)

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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

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I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.

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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

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This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.

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