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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/had-explicitly-been-concerned-to-treat-mathematics-as-if-it-were-a/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

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## More by Andrew Hodges

> [“he talked excitedly of the future of automatic computers, and reassured them that mathematicians would not be put out of work. In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/he-talked-excitedly-of-the-future-of-automatic-computers-and/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

> [“The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/the-whole-thinking-process-is-still-rather-mysterious-to-us-but-i/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

> [“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/it-was-difficult-enough-being-a-mathematician-this-being-the/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

> [“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world. That question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/had-explicitly-been-concerned-to-treat-mathematics-as-if-it-were-a/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/the-popular-view-that-scientists-proceed-inexorably-from-well/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

> [“God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-hodges/god-having-created-his-universe-has-now-screwed-the-cap-on-his-pen/)

[Andrew Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-hodges/)

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