①Knowledge is our most important business. ②The success of almost all our
other business depends on it, but its value is not only economic. 3 The pursuit,
production, spread, application, and preservation of knowledge are the central
activities of a civilization. Knowledge is social memory, a connection to the past;
and it is social hope, an investment in the future. ⑤The ability to create knowledge
and put use to it is the key characteristic of humans. ⑥It is how we reproduce
ourselves as social beings and how we change how we keep our feet on the
ground and our heads in the clouds.
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