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Author: Alan Rauch Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822326687 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
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DIVA statement on how “knowledge” is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination./div
Author: Alan Rauch Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822326687 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
DIVA statement on how “knowledge” is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination./div
Author: Abraham Flexner Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691174768 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 104
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A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.
Author: Alan Rauch
Author: Alan Rauch
Author: Jonathan Lyons
Author: Robert Kemp Philp
Author: Abraham Flexner
Author: David H Williams
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Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)