Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

Whitfield Diffie

I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.

Whitfield Diffie

I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.

Whitfield Diffie

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

Walter Rauschenbusch

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Joseph Rotblat

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Walter Kohn

Isaac: Augustus Waters was a cocky son of a bitch. But we forgive him. Not because of his super-human good looks or because he only got 19 years when he should have gotten way more. Augustus Waters: 18 years, buddy. Isaac: Dude, come on, really? I'm ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Calculating God

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

On Certainty

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Culture and Value

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value