Donald Knuth Quotes
In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
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I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.
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Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.
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Art makes people smile, brings people together.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
