Alan Turing — "The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact t…"

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. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.
Alan Turing — Alan Turing Modern · Computer science, codebreaking

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From "Computing machinery and intelligence" and other papers.

Date: 1950

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