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Donald Knuth

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

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Donald Knuth is saying that science involves knowledge clear and precise enough to be programmed into a computer, meaning it can be logically and systematically explained. In contrast, art covers all human activities that are not yet fully understood or easily translated into such exact instructions.

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