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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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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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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. – Claude Bernard

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. – William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910

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Science is facts. – Henri Poincare

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