"in the pursuit of knowledge" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's actions or intentions in seeking or acquiring knowledge. Example: "The university's motto is 'In the pursuit of knowledge' which embodies the dedication and determination of its students to constantly strive for greater understanding and learning."
Critically, the time that participants are willing to give you in the pursuit of knowledge.
I think it comes from the academic idea that you must suffer in the pursuit of knowledge.
This isn't exactly glamorous work but it is vital in the pursuit of knowledge of any sort.
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The point is that to imagine that only white men engage in the pursuit of knowledge – as the current syllabi imply – is ludicrous.
The NIGMS website cites Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg: The most important advances in medicine during the 20th century... have one thing in common: They were all discoveries made in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake".
Menand shows that general education curriculums have been criticized since their inception less for being too broad in focus than for being too narrow in intent, more invested in making education socially "relevant" than in encouraging the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.
Moreover, we expect that all members of our community will help to create the most productive environment possible, an environment comfortable to everyone and free from fear, in which the pursuit of knowledge and the articulation of thought will be fostered and encouraged.
In conclusion, clinical and basic research further supported by computational biology can complement each other in the pursuit of knowledge-based development of improved intervention measures for TB control.
Mr Murray's self-appointed task is to reclaim the significance and status of a man whose high amateurism, as he calls it, was looking ever more out of date in an age when the pursuit of knowledge was becoming a monopoly of university departments.
Even Epicurus, who may have fought against Aristotle's early theology and psychology and ignored his mature philosophy, was, nonetheless, near him in his doctrine of the will and in his conception of friendship and the pursuit of knowledge as the high aims that give satisfaction and pleasure to humans.
