As Wotan sacrifices an eye for the sake of knowledge, and is diminished further as the cycle proceeds, so those in public life pay a heavy price for the acquisition and retention of power.
Geophysics has major influence both as a field of pure science in which the objective is pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and as an applied science in which the objectives involve solution of problems of practical or commercial interest.
Rather their twin desires are often to acquire knowledge for knowledge's sake and to do good for the world.
Rickert contends that the historical beginnings of philosophy in ancient Greece coincide with the birth of a purely 'theoretical man', that is, of a subject who pursues knowledge for knowledge's sake and in so doing discloses a dimension of totality unknown to natural, practically oriented human subjects (Rickert 1923b).
I'm all for knowledge for knowledge's sake and I'm glad a very small percentage of people felt they learned that "biodiversity is related to biological phenomena".
I'm surely happy that a zoo visitor may learn something she or he didn't previously know, but if they don't use this information in a meaningful way to do something for the animals, then it's knowledge for knowledge's sake and that is not a sufficient reason for keeping animals in cages.
Norris was dedicated to the cause of knowledge for Christianity's sake, and he saw his own work, as well as his predecessors', as attempting to realize fully knowledge of the Pauline Doctrine, stated at Acts 17:28, that in God "we live, move and have our being".
Science for the sake of knowledge was seen as an anachronism: good enough for Newton and Einstein, but useless to the needs of the modern British economy.
The space race between the US and the Soviet Union was not an affordable luxury undertaken for the sake of knowledge, but intrinsically tied to the military-industrial complex.
He offers us little help on how the balance can be struck between pursuing knowledge for its own sake and giving students the saleable skills they surely deserve.
