#sci

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. ↗

— Frank Knight

#describes #science #sense #static #things

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#science #food

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project. ↗

— Harry Knowles

#been #cinemas #done #fantasy #fiction

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium. ↗

— Barry Estabrook

#factory-farming #food #science #tomatoes #food

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#ever #i #into #relatives #science

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#changed #extra #fascinating #go #into

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conscience #i #i think #inferior #leave

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 one's contributions to computer science. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#better ways #computer #computer science #contributions #current

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computer #fact #field #i #in fact

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

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing