Quotes About Knowledge

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I never read one book at a time.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

The rules - I think that's one big thing that people seem to get caught up in is that I have to know all the rules... But, one thing you have to consider as a new Dungeon Master is you do not have to know the rules like the back of your hand.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

We're quite fortunate on 'The Chase,' we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time - the questions.

I read several books at one time.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

I don't read much of anything online.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.