Whole principle is independence, whole object is truth, and the dissemination of every species of knowledge that may conduce to the happiness of society".
Ms. Smith delivers Acandre's big final speech — which brings to mind Prospero's "our revels now are ended" soliloquy — with a rueful knowledge that may well bring tears to your eyes.
Albeit one that, as Pflanz concedes, is a luxury compared with the benefits of knowing why an aircraft crashes – and the knowledge that may later help to prevent great loss of life under similar circumstances.
There's something jolting, in the best possible sense, about science's incessant quest to measure the unmeasurable, to give precise coordinates to knowledge that may have been common but was still vague.
Four pages long and with advertisements on its front page, it was advertised as "Unbiased by Prejudice – Uninfluenced by Party", and its objectives as "truth, and the dissemination of every species of knowledge that may conduce to the happiness of society".
"Only the full-time researchers can maintain the cutting-edge knowledge that may be needed," says Dr Philippa Brice of PHG Foundation, a think-tank that has spent over 10 years encouraging Whitehall and Westminster to entertain the idea of incorporating full genetic analysis into the NHS.
As Sir Peter Gluckman argues, this is not to deny that science 'should hold a privileged place' among the types of knowledge that may be meaningful to policymakers, but this privilege is fragile and depends on not overstating what is known, and on acknowledging scientific limits and uncertainties.
This study suggests that the process is still more complex, and that sleep helps people make inferences from bits of knowledge that may at first appear random, said one of the authors, Dr. Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Harvard affiliate.
When the Observer was launched, the advertisements announced it to be: "Unbiased by Prejudice - Uninfluenced by Party, Whose Principle is Independence, whose Object is Truth, and the Dissemination of every Species of Knowledge that may conduce to the Happiness of Society".
These require both discipline-specific processes and content knowledge that may be new to learners.
With this goal, the production of knowledge that may support decision is highly needed.
