Quotes About Knowledge

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

I went to public school my entire life.

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public schools, so I never really learned it.

I like to think that I am providing a public service to educate parents.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and then maybe I bring sort of my knowledge of power into play.

Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is going.

Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.