Alan Turing Quotes

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

We learn to do by doing.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

I believe that we learn by practice.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.