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

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Source : Epigram to Robin Gandy, 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

Alan Turing

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“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”
“Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.”
“Daytime television, you can tell whoâ€™s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either itâ€™s clinics for drying out drunks. Or itâ€™s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or itâ€™s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If youâ€™re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. Youâ€™re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”
“The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.”
“No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.”
“I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.”

Source : Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co
“I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.”
“When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.”

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