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... →
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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... →
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess... →
Arthur Koestler
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the... →
E. L. Konigsburg
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality... →
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the... →