Donald Ervin Knuth: Quotes about science

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“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”

Donald Ervin Knuth Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Foreword to the book A=B http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html (1996)
Source: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Art , Understanding , Science

“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science…”

Donald Ervin Knuth book The Art of Computer Programming

Vol. IV - A, Combinatorial Algorithms, Section 4.2.1.6 (2011)
The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011)

Tree , Science

“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.”

Donald Ervin Knuth

Source: Computer Programming as an Art (1974), p. 668

Art , Understanding , Knowledge , Science

“I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.”

Donald Ervin Knuth

Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview http://karthikr.wordpress.com/2006/04/06/donald-knuth-%e2%80%94-computer-literacy-bookshops-interview-1993/ Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview (1993)
On why bioinformatics is very exciting

Confidence , Problem , Science

“In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.”

Donald Ervin Knuth

Source: Computer Programming as an Art (1974), p. 669 [italics in source]

Art , Sense , Science