Kamil kubiak, PhD
Geometrical optics is either very simple, or else it is very complicated…
— Richard P. Feynman in Lectures in Physics, Vol. I
— Richard P. Feynman in Lectures in Physics, Vol. I
Knowledge is a merchandise. The cost of obtaining it is linked with an effort of a person who gained it.
Under market conditions information and knowledge are goods and are subject to the same market rules as other products.
A discovery is not a discovery until it is "sold".
The ones who go down in history are those who disseminated, that is popularized their work.
Nobel prize laureate, physicist richard feynman allegedly once said: "if you cannot tell your aunt what you are doing, it means that you do not know what you are doing!".