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Donald Knuth : We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Albert Schweitzer : " The ethic of reverence of life constrains all, in whatever walk of life they may find themselves, to busy themselves intimately with all the human and vital processes which are being played out around them, and to give themselves as men to the man who needs human help and sympathy. It does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful to the community in so doing. It does not permit the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many by its means. It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others. In what way and in what measure this is his duty, this everyone must decide on the basis of the thoughts which arise in himself, and the circumstances which attend the course of his own life. The self-sacrifice of one may not be particularly in evidence. He carries it out simply by continuing his normal life. Another is called to some striking self-surrender which obliges him to set on one side all regard for his own progress. Let no one measure himself by his conclusions respecting someone else. The destiny of men has to fulfill itself in a thousand ways, so that goodness may be actualized. What every individual has to contribute remains his own secret. But we must all mutually share in the knowledge that our existence only attains its true value when we have experienced in ourselves the truth of the declaration: 'He who loses his life shall find it.' " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Jim Morrison : " Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as "Mother of Chemistry", and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Bertrand Russell : " In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Leopold Stokowski : " It is my profound wish that this entire collection shall be devoted to the advancement of fine music for the continued enjoyment of music enthusiasts throughout the United States, be they students of the arts, performing artists, or members of that vast audience of music lovers among the American public. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Saul Bellow : " Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Arianna Stassinopoulos : " Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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George Orwell : " To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Rainer Maria Rilke : " Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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W H Auden : " All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Lou Dorfsman : " Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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Donald Knuth: " Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." # Mistakes # Caution # Ethics

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Donald Knuth: " A list is only as strong as its weakest link." # Weakness # Thoughts and Thinking # Reputation

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Donald Knuth: " An algorithm must be seen to be believed." # Belief

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Donald Knuth: " Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." # Optimism # Attitude # Evil

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Donald Knuth: " The reason is not to glorify "bit chasing"; a more fundamental issue is at stake here: Numerical subroutines should deliver results that satisfy simple, useful mathematical laws whenever possible. [...] Without any underlying symmerty properties, the job of proving interesting results becomes extremely unpleasant. The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work." # Success # Law and Lawyers # Excellence

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Donald Knuth: " The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." # Music # Science and Scientists # Computers

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Donald Knuth: " The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random." # Planning # Love # Death and Dying

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Donald Knuth: " Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." # Computers

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Donald Knuth: " Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it." # Computers # Science and Scientists # Teachers and Teaching

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Donald Knuth: " We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art." # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Happiness

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