Top 35 Andrew Hodges Quotes (2024 Update)

Andrew Hodges Quote: “Is there intelligence without life? Is there mind without communication? Is there language without living? Is there thought without experience?”

1. “Is there intelligence without life? Is there mind without communication? Is there language without living? Is there thought without experience?”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “His studies of the various branches of Indian law, the Tamil language and the history of British India then won him seventh place again in the Final ICS examination of 1896.”

2. “His studies of the various branches of Indian law, the Tamil language and the history of British India then won him seventh place again in the Final ICS examination of 1896.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.”

3. “Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The line between the ‘mechanical’ and the ‘intelligent’ was very, very slightly blurred.”

4. “The line between the ‘mechanical’ and the ‘intelligent’ was very, very slightly blurred.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”

5. “For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Atheist, homosexual, eccentric, marathon-running English mathematician, A. M. Turing was in large part responsible not only for the concept of computers, incisive theorems about their powers, and a clear vision of the possibility of computer minds, but also for the cracking of German ciphers during the Second World War.”

6. “Atheist, homosexual, eccentric, marathon-running English mathematician, A. M. Turing was in large part responsible not only for the concept of computers, incisive theorems about their powers, and a clear vision of the possibility of computer minds, but also for the cracking of German ciphers during the Second World War.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Hilbert, who was always down-to-earth, liked to say: ‘One must always be able to say “tables, chairs, beer-mugs”, instead of “points, lines, planes”.”

7. “Hilbert, who was always down-to-earth, liked to say: ‘One must always be able to say “tables, chairs, beer-mugs”, instead of “points, lines, planes”.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a machine make mistakes? Could a machine believe it made its own decisions? Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself? Could a machine come up with ideas that had not been programmed into it in advance? Could creativity emerge from a set of fixed rules? Are we – even the most creative among us – but passive slaves to the laws of physics that govern our neurons?”

9. “Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a machine make mistakes? Could a machine believe it made its own decisions? Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself? Could a machine come up with ideas that had not been programmed into it in advance? Could creativity emerge from a set of fixed rules? Are we – even the most creative among us – but passive slaves to the laws of physics that govern our neurons?”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line.”

10. “The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us greatly in finding out how we think ourselves.”

11. “The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us greatly in finding out how we think ourselves.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing – as did the games on the Colossi – and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the ‘intelligent’ and the ‘mechanical’. His view, expressed in terms of the imitation principle, was that there was no such line, and neither did he ever draw a sharp distinction between the ‘states of mind’ approach and the ‘instruction note’ approach to the problem of reconciling the appearance of freedom and of determinism.”

13. “HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing – as did the games on the Colossi – and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the ‘intelligent’ and the ‘mechanical’. His view, expressed in terms of the imitation principle, was that there was no such line, and neither did he ever draw a sharp distinction between the ‘states of mind’ approach and the ‘instruction note’ approach to the problem of reconciling the appearance of freedom and of determinism.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere.”

14. “The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “His machines – soon to be called Turing machines – offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.”

15. “His machines – soon to be called Turing machines – offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.”

16. “His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Alan had become more prepared to go along with the system. It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn. But he would take the ‘obvious duties’ as conventions rather than impositions, as long as they interfered with nothing important.”

17. “Alan had become more prepared to go along with the system. It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn. But he would take the ‘obvious duties’ as conventions rather than impositions, as long as they interfered with nothing important.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.”

18. “He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The point of what Einstein had done did not lie in this or that experiment. It lay, as Alan saw, in the ability to doubt, to take ideas seriously, and to follow them to a logical if upsetting conclusion.”

19. “The point of what Einstein had done did not lie in this or that experiment. It lay, as Alan saw, in the ability to doubt, to take ideas seriously, and to follow them to a logical if upsetting conclusion.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.”

20. “For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “He called the scientific subjects ‘low cunning’, and would sniff and say, ‘This room smells of mathematics! Go out and fetch a disinfectant spray!”

22. “He called the scientific subjects ‘low cunning’, and would sniff and say, ‘This room smells of mathematics! Go out and fetch a disinfectant spray!”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Yet the system prevailed, in all but details. One could conform, rebel, or withdraw – and Alan withdrew.”

23. “Yet the system prevailed, in all but details. One could conform, rebel, or withdraw – and Alan withdrew.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.”

24. “Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Hilbert had written of Galileo that in his recantation ‘he was not an idiot. Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.’ But this was not a trial of scientific truth.”

26. “Hilbert had written of Galileo that in his recantation ‘he was not an idiot. Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.’ But this was not a trial of scientific truth.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.”

28. “Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “But whatever these were, it was clear that here was part of Alan that was so; that part of his reality was shaped that way.”

29. “But whatever these were, it was clear that here was part of Alan that was so; that part of his reality was shaped that way.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.”

30. “For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “The line between ‘mathematicians’ and ‘engineers’ was demarcated very clearly, and if not quite an Iron Curtain, it was a barrier as awkward as the MacMahon Act.”

31. “The line between ‘mathematicians’ and ‘engineers’ was demarcated very clearly, and if not quite an Iron Curtain, it was a barrier as awkward as the MacMahon Act.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “On 25 May 2011, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, speaking to the parliament of the United Kingdom, singled out Newton, Darwin and Alan Turing as British contributors to science. Celebrity is an imperfect measure of significance, and politicians do not confer scientific status, but Obama’s choice signalled that public recognition of Alan Turing had attained a level very much higher than in 1983, when this book first appeared.”

32. “On 25 May 2011, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, speaking to the parliament of the United Kingdom, singled out Newton, Darwin and Alan Turing as British contributors to science. Celebrity is an imperfect measure of significance, and politicians do not confer scientific status, but Obama’s choice signalled that public recognition of Alan Turing had attained a level very much higher than in 1983, when this book first appeared.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons.”

33. “He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do. I.”

34. “Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do. I.”

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Andrew Hodges Quote: “One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.”

35. “One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.”

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