“ Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. for example, many people had argued that training nurses wa… Simon Singh
“ Perhaps the greatest danger in the way that alternative therapists behave is simply the promotion of their own treatments when patients should be in the care of a conventional doctor. There are numero… Simon Singh
“ This special was followed one month later by Bart the Genius. This was the first genuine episode of The Simpsons , inasmuch as it premiered the famous trademark opening sequence and included the debut… Simon Singh
“ „Naštěstí nahoře nevěděli, že Turing je homosexuál, jinak bychom také mohli prohrát válku. Simon Singh
“ The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification t… Simon Singh
“ In my mind, the most noble way to leave your mark on the world is to expand man’s understanding of the world. Simon Singh
“ First ever military cryptographic device, the Spartan scytale, dating back to the fifth century B.C. The scytale is a wooden staff around which a strip of leather or parchment is wound, Simon Singh
“ One-way functions are sometimes called Humpty Dumpty functions. Modular arithmetic, sometimes called clock arithmetic in schools, is an area of mathematics that is rich in one-way functions. In modula… Simon Singh
“ Turing needed more staff, but his requests had been blocked by Commander Edward Travis, who had taken over as Director of Bletchley, and who felt that he could not justify recruiting more people. On O… Simon Singh
“ Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibi… Simon Singh
“ I had this very rare privilege of being able to pursue in my life what had been my childhood dream. I know it's a rare privilege, but if you can tackle something in adult life that means that much to… Simon Singh
“ „Než odevzdám tyto dokumenty do rukou veřejnosti, chci říci pár slov těm, jejichž zájem vzbudí, a udělit malou radu, získanou hořkou zkušeností. Zní takto: věnujte hledání jen tolik času, kolik můžete… Simon Singh
“ The fate of the Polish nation had depended on Rejewski, and he did not disappoint his country. Rejewski’s attack on Enigma is one of the truly great accomplishments of cryptanalysis. Simon Singh
“ Significance of the key, as opposed to the algorithm, is an enduring principle of cryptography. It was definitively stated in 1883 by the Dutch linguist Auguste Kerckhoffs von Nieuwenhof in his book L… Simon Singh
“ The problem looks so straightforward because it is based on the one piece of mathematics that everyone can remember – Pythagoras’ theorem: In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is eq… Simon Singh
