Word: graspingly
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...drift toward the departmental. In order to attain "an insight into the fundamental principles of the subject and the nature of the scientific enterprise," i.e., what the Redbook calls the "structure" of a science or of science, the student needs a thorough, and more likely, a profound, grasp of the components of the subject, of the bricks of the structure. The student has to know things before he can appreciate what they mean in a broader view...
...introductory course, there should be available to him science courses in General Education proper which assume and draw on his knowledge. These courses should take up explicitly three issues usually ignored in the departmental courses: first, the methods of sciences, analyzed and compared on the basis of a grasp of at least one method of one science; second, the grounds of scientific generalizations and theories, extending first-hand experience with theoretical calculations from introductory laboratories; third, the social context of science, starting from knowledge of at least one scientist in one real laboratory in one real department. It is these...
...Finally, I for one do not adhere to the view Denton says he received from his Negro friend in Harvard College that whites qua whites cannot grasp the essentials of Negro experiences in modern times, and assist in eradicating the consequences of these experiences. However, from Denton's article it is clear that he himself is in no position whatever to answer this view-point one way or the other. Despite the fact that he is himself a Negro, Herbert Denton possesses a pitifully superficial understanding of the Negro's experience, both past and present. Martin Kilson Lecturer on Government...
...tremendously increased modern man's sense of power over nature. But it also humbled him, by producing new forces of destruction, by building computers incredibly faster than his own brain, and by transforming the simple physical concepts of Newton's day into an almost metaphysical dream world beyond his grasp...
James possessed an extraordinary talent for ferreting out values and an equally prodigious capacity for gaining and maintaining a grasp upon them. It was this gift, as well as his flashes of brilliance, that made him memorable as a teacher. Yet the reluctance to sacrifice anything of worth for the sake of a total system produced contradictions and paradoxes...