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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Edsger Dijkstra on Science

More quotes about Science

  • "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

  • "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

  • "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

  • "Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."

  • "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

  • "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

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