"I am not very impressed with theological arguments……" — Alan Turing
"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. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory."
—
Alan Turing
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
32 Quotes by Alan Turing
Alan Turing has 32 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best…
-
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time…
-
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the…
-
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble…
-
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
-
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
-
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
-
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There…
-
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
-
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
-
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
-
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is…
See all 32 quotes by Alan Turing »
More Adequate Quotes
This quote is filed under Adequate Quotes,
one of 327 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
-
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
-
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
— Norman Borlaug
-
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
-
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
— Elizabeth Bowen
-
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
-
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
— Warren Buffett
-
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
-
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
— Margaret Chan
-
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
— Julia Child
-
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
— Hillary Clinton
See all 327 Adequate Quotes »