His body of knowledge, amassed over 20 years in city government, is invaluable in a community where, because birth control is frowned upon, many families have seven or more children.
From Babylon's Hanging Garden and Pyramids of awe and wonder, To the Tigris and Euphrates valley's procreation's vast, To the tomes of Alexandria's knowledge amassed.
What I find common and so stimulating about the philosophical efforts of these intellectual colleagues is the way they thoughtfully reflect on human knowledge, amassed from empirical explorations in areas ranging from science to history, to clarify issues that are relevant to making decisions about how to function more effectively and happily as an individual, and as a member of a society.
It is probable that other cancer types and even individual cancers have their own idiosyncrasies with regards to their evolution and clonal diversity; however, many of the principles outlined here are likely to apply and the body of knowledge amassed for AML can inform efforts to understand and most importantly to treat many other malignancies.
The knowledge thus amassed is then stored on millions of yellowing pieces of paper, typed or handwritten; from an old-time dictator's viewpoint, exclusive access to these files is at least as powerful an instrument of fear as any torture chamber.
What drivers see today on their navigation screens or smart phones is only the barest outline of the knowledge being amassed by the vans.
The accelerated development of technology in the past century is a result of the increasing body of knowledge, continuously amassed by researchers around the world, and increasingly made available to others by the use of modern communication tools.
These characteristics tend to hinder research progress, but the large empirical knowledge base amassed in different regions of the world suggests that it should now be possible to synthesize the data and make a substantial improvement in the understanding of post-wildfire runoff and erosion response.
No matter how much knowledge we amass about the ways of the universe, there will always be more concepts and phenomena to demystify.
I didn't know much about China back then -- a time when I could only communicate in Mandarin with a dictionary and lots of patience, and where my entire cultural knowledge was amassed from the library books on China I borrowed during the summer.
