Publication Quotes

• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Transition

  "Bill Gates: The future according to the world's richest man". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. March 20, 2006.

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• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  Salvador Dali

  Habit, Revelations, Democratic

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• I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Writing, Science, Brevity

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• But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

  Michael Shermer

  Lying, Science, Paper

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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• The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

  Rudolf Hilferding

  Economic, Volume, Made

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• There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

  Julius Streicher

  Book, Greek, Christianity

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• It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

  James Daly

  Frequency

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• The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Book, Library

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38

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• My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

  Robert Cormier

  Dream, Sweet, Book

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• I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

  Francois Gautier

  Writing, Europe, Asia

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• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Running, Jobs, Simple

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• The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Science, Understanding

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Memories, Science, Men

  John Desmond Bernal (1953). “Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century”, p.199, Taylor & Francis

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• The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Men, Doe

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• The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Real, Science, Doe

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• (1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary.

  Fuller Albright

  Science, Osteoporosis, Usual

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• There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Average, Paper

  Francis Crick (1995). “Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Editors

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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 17, 2011

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• Publication - is the auction of the mind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mind, Auctions, Publishing

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.333, Harvard University Press

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• One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

  David Hilbert

  Work, Math, Science

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971)

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