Is not fear also responsible for the accumulation of knowledge?

Is not fear also responsible for the accumulation of knowledge? 

Fear takes the form of knowledge, and that is why human beings accumulate knowledge and worship it. They think that knowledge is so important in life - knowledge of what hashappened, of what is going to happen, knowledge not only scientific but so-called spiritual knowledge. The whole process of accumulating information gradually becomes a thing which we worship as knowledge.
We feel that if we do not know, we would be lost; we would not know how to conduct ourselves, how to behave. So, gradually through other people's beliefs and experiences, through our own experiences, through book knowledge, through what the sages have said, we build up knowledge which becomes tradition, and behind that tradition and knowledge, we take refuge.

Om Namah Shivay.