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Learning for Its Own Sake
For me, scientific knowledge is
divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with
the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with
mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of cultural achievements, every
kind of historical knowledge). Apart from these sciences is philosophy, about
which we will take shortly. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical
knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the
need to understand that is intrinsic and consubstantial to man. What
distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not
know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he
was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldn’ t be a
man. The technical aspects of applications of k
A. invented modern mathematical applications
B. were interested in navigation
C. were unaware of the value of their studies
D. worked with electricity