北京邮电大学考博英语辅导：考博英语阅读理解习题.pdf

中国考博辅导首选学校 北京邮电大学考博英语辅导：考博英语阅读理解习题 Forme, scientificknowledgeisdividedintomathematical 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,allthisispureortheoreticalknowledgethatisintrinsicandconsubstautial toman.Whatdistinguishesmanfromanimalisthatheknowsandneedstoknow. Ifman didnot know thatthe world existed, andthat theworld was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldnt be a man. The technical aspects or applications of knowledge are equallynecessary forman andareofthe greatestimportance,because they also contribute to defining him as man andpermit him to pursue a life increasingly moretrulyhuman. But evenwhile enjoyingthe results of technical progress, he must defend theprimacyandautonomyofpureknowledge.Knowledgesoughtdirectlyforits practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success,but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen, exceptbytheimaginationoftheUtopians.LetmerecallaweN-knownexample. If the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conicsectionszealouslyandwithouttheleastsuspicionthatitmightsomedaybe useful,itwouldnothavebeenpossiblecenturieslatertonavigatefarfromshore. The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried onbecause ofmere intellectual curiosity,would eventually leadtomodernelectricaltechnology,withoutwhichwecanscarcelyconceiveof contemporary life. Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, be-cause the humanspiritcannotresignitselftoignorance.But,inaddition,thefoundationfor