In "address to students at moscow state university president reagan expresses the idea that progress can only be achieved if man is free to
pursue knowledge and learn from his mistakes
which two sentences from the passage best support this concept?
from address to students at moscow state university
by ronald reagan
like a chrysalis, we're emerging from the economy of the industrial revolution - an economy confined to and limited by the earth's physical
resources into, as one economist titled his book, "the economy in mind," in which there are no bounds on human imagination and the freedom
create is the most precious natural resource. think of that little computer chip. its value isn't in the sand from which it is made but in the microscopi
architecture designed into it by ingenious human minds or take the example of the satellite relaying this broadcast around the world, which replac
thousands of tons of coppermined from the earth and molded into wire in the new economy, human invention increasingly makes physical resour
obsolete we're breaking through the material conditions of existence to a world where man creates his own destiny even as we explore the most
advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom contained in the book of genesis in the bible in the
beginning was the spint, and it was from this spirit that the material abundance of creation issued forth.
but progress is not foreordained. the key is freedom - freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. the renowned
scientist, scholar, and founding father of this university, mikhail lomonosov, knew that it is common knowledge," he said, "that the achievements
science are considerable and rapid, particularly once the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy." you know, one of
first contacts between your country and mine took place between russian and american explorers. the americans were members of cook's last
voyage on an expedition searching for an arctic passage, on the island of unalaska, they came upon the russians, who took them in, and togeth
with the native inhabitants, held a prayer service on the ice.
the explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the
known. these entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the united states. they are the