Humanity has always striven to acquire new knowledge. The process of mastering secrets of existence continues unceasingly and its vector is oriented on the infinite vistas of the future. The pace and scale of cognitive activity are constantly increasing. Every day is marked by intellectual advances in a constant quest, which ever more widely and vividly illuminates the remote horizons of as yet invisible. We are deluged with new discoveries. The path travelled by science convinces us that the possibilities of human cognition are limitless. Our reason perceives the laws of the universe in order to bring them under mans control, in order to refashion the world in the interests of man and society. Human knowledge is a highly complex system, a social memory whose wealth is passed on from generation to generation by means of social heredity..... ---(ALEXANDER SPIRKIN, Dialectical Materialism)
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:21:08 +0000
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