[a].
Knowledge is our most important business. The success of
almost all our other business depends on it, but its value is not only
economic. 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
[b].
future. The ability to create knowledge and put use to it is the key
[c]
characteristic of humans. It is how we [d] reproduce ourselves as social
beings and how we change-how we keep
our heads in the clouds.
[e].
our feet on the ground and
