Word: joyful
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Structurally, the course is organized around demonstrating how scientific statements flow from the interplay of data and concept. There is no shortage of the “scientific method” in the course. Finally, I strive to convey the wonder and joy that can flow from the scientific endeavor. I strongly believe that in institutions of higher learning there ought to be a place for courses that excite the mind, and that enhance our appreciation of how we came to be and of our place on the planet...
You’ll feel an inexplicable brand of joy, watching baseball in the sun while Harvard digs out from under snow...
...loved to take children - any child - and sit them in her lap and tickle them or play games with them or examine their hands, tracing out the miracle of bone and tendon and skin and delighting at the truths to be found there. She saw mysteries everywhere and took joy in the sheer strangeness of life...
...than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang. Walking up the stairs, though, I knew what I hoped for - that my mother was together in some way with those four little girls, capable in some fashion of embracing them, of finding joy in their spirits...
...closing, I’d like thank all who have had the luck and joy of befriending Hui, who have enjoyed his cheerful spirit and his staccato eloquence, who have been struck by his sharpness of mind and charmed by his jocosity of humor, and who will forever help keep him around by dedicating a special place of our heart to his remembrance...