19 For some, there is a temptation to shield knowledge in pursuit of self-interest due to, for example, provider organisations who feel they are in competition for local resources, or staff who feel insecure about their job due to efficiency drives.
For now, though, he seems content to show his audiences a good time, secure in the knowledge that the pursuit of innocent laughter is wholly honorable.
Armed with the knowledge of CWQC, pursuit of excellence, highly motivated and cheap manpower, and the newly opening global market, Japanese firms became formidable competitors.
It seeks to go beyond raising awareness of quality issues, and demonstrate the implications of trends in evaluation quality on the usability of knowledge in the pursuit of delivering results for children and women.
The spirit of the I.G.Y., a collectivist pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, has over the decades given way to a more capitalistic impulse.
But as social science starts going through the kind of revolution that astronomy and chemistry went through 200 years ago, we should resist the urge to attack the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake.
Without such a guiding agenda, and without the assumption that nature conforms to our rational demands for securing unity and coherence of knowledge, our scientific pursuits would lack orientation.
