'It just happens to be in the nature of knowledge that it cannot be conserved if it does not grow. Scientists — “knowers” [from the Greek] — need to continuously satisfy their curiosity if what they know is to remain valid and retain its vitality.'
https://blog.cbs.dk/inframethodology/?p=2248
It seems to me that the purpose of university research has been lost, or at least greatly obscured, over the past fifty or sixty years. It is commonplace today to…
a Schelling point for those who seek one