Quotes About Knowledge

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.

Turns out, there's not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

TV news is not very instructive.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

I love Mark Twain's words - 'I've never allowed college to interfere with my education.'

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.