I prefer the optimistic viewpoint, because the way of nature and the human race and all species is to expand outward: acquire more knowledge, acquire better ways of living.
The mystics realized that beyond the knowledge of outward sciences intuitive knowledge was required in order to receive that illumination to which reason has no access.
The trend is especially apparent in biomedicine, a discipline within which researchers, eager to find practical treatments for disease and to push outward the boundaries of knowledge, are finding new ways to use math to usefully rechannel a flood of data created by new technologies.
These results suggest that reverse knowledge flows from outward migration help mitigate negative effects of outward migration on source countries.
Rickman's style shows more knowledge of the outward form of Gothic architecture than real acquaintance with or concern for its spirit.
The emperor, among other things, ordered changes to the old civil service examination system, with its rote learning of ancient Chinese texts; only foreign knowledge and an outward looking education, the reformers argued, could rescue China from decline.
This aversion to history goes back at least as far as Descartes -- who at the outset of his Meditations (there's a classic one might choose to read this year!) determined to set aside the historical opinions that he had been taught in his youth and began to build anew "a firm and permanent structure" of knowledge that extended outward from his own mind and body.
This paper aims to measure the flow of knowledge from the US outward.
Hence, it is possible to observe complete nonviolence with right knowledge, even when some outward violence occurs to living beings in the course of performing religious duties by observing carefulness and pure mental disposition without any attachment.
Keep expanding outward until you have a working knowledge of the geography of the world.
