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Pure or Theoretical Knowledge For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or scie
Pure or Theoretical Knowledge For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or scie
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2010-01-13
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Pure or Theoretical Knowledge
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 talk later. In the first place, all this is pure of theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfil 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 man. The technical aspects or applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance because they also contribute to defining him as man and permit him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human.
But even while enjoying the results of technical progress, he must defend the primacy and autonomy of pure knowledge. Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen, except by the imagination of the Utopians. Let me recall a well-known example. If the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic sections, zealously and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first man to study nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely conceive of contemporary life, Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that would not have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly.
The most important advances made by mankind come from ______.
选项
A、apparently useless information
B、the natural sciences
C、philosophy
D、technical applications
答案
A
解析
全文主要以pure or theoretical knowledge为中心展开,其中第一段详细阐述了pure theoretical knowledge的主要性,再最后指出它是实践成果的基础,如果没有它,我们就不能取得其应用的成果。由此可知人类取得的重要成果来自于表面看来不实用的纯科学知识。因此,B为正确答案。
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