We pursue knowledge in the name of the public good.
Engineers and scientists often pursue knowledge in order to know the "unknowable".
With the British pound hitting new lows almost daily and the cost of telescopes, satellites and atom smashers soaring, it is becoming harder for Britain to pursue knowledge in partnership with its Western allies.
Most forensic specialties aren't actually sciences at all, but disciplines that were developed in police agencies and crime labs — not in the interest of pursuing knowledge, but in the interest of helping police solve crimes.
Knowledge Building pedagogy, however, deals with the particular issues of pursuing knowledge creation in an educational context.
Given his stated aim to account for specific features of matter e.g., particular aggregation states, special forces one would think that such contingent features are a problem for empirical science not philosophy, since Kant sees the latter as pursuing knowledge that is, in various senses, necessary.
In pursuing knowledge across the university, I became adept at translating ideas across areas and disciplines.
But if you're chucking out lofty values about pursuing knowledge and instead pushing aspiration in a "knowledge economy", then success relies on the economy beyond the campus gates.
That doesn't mean, he added, that universities have to let go of the notion that there is an intrinsic value in enhancing creativity, pursuing knowledge and encouraging qualities, like curiosity and openness to new ideas, that cannot be easily quantified.
Pursuing knowledge is particularly critical when you are consulting in fields that continue to evolve like technology and marketing.
