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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathemati

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. – Whitfield Diffie

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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but its all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. – Whitfield Diffie

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Technology
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Whitfield Diffie
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People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they dont take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. – Whitfield Diffie

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Politics
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Im really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. – John Templeton

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The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. – Alex Jason [Popularized by Adam Savage in MythBusters. Supposedly, Karl Kruszeln

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. – Phillip E. Johnson

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