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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_knowledge‎ ... of Life" make some points in common with Al-Faruqi, calling likewise for strong ethical limits and a curtailment of curiosity or "knowledge for knowledge's sake".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_in_early_cultures‎ ... possible for early civilizations to develop and more time to be devoted to tasks other than survival, such as the search for knowledge for knowledge's sake.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur's_quadrant‎ The governmental engineer is behaving like Edison, with the greatest interest in utility, and considerably less interest in knowledge for knowledge's sake.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith,_Science_and_Understanding‎ ... and that universities are institutionalised expressions of the beliefs in the value of knowledge for knowledge's sake and the essential unity of all knowledge.




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