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Quote by Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. – Donald Knuth

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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. – Donald Knuth

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Beauty
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. – Donald Knuth

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Science
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of ones contributions to computer science. – Donald Knuth

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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. – Rudolph Ladenburg

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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic. – Brit Marling

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Science

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. – Bill Gates

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The thing about science is that its an accurate picture of the world. – Jonathan Miller

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You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. Its the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimers and Parkinsons as well. – Mehmet Oz

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Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

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