Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.