The Teaching of ScienceMacmillan, 1918 - 249 Seiten |
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Seite 11 - Whoever has not in youth collected plants and insects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes and hedgerows can assume.
Seite 10 - ... discipline of science is superior to that of our ordinary education, because of the religious culture that it gives. Of course we do not here use the words scientific and religious in their ordinary limited acceptations; but in their widest and highest acceptations. Doubtless, to the superstitions that pass under the name of religion, science is antagonistic ; but not to the essential religion which these superstitions merely hide. Doubtless, too, in much of the science that is current, there...
Seite 238 - Nothing is more agreeable to a man who has made science his career than to increase the number of discoveries, but his cup of joy is full when the result of his observations is put to immediate practical test.
Seite 9 - True science and true religion," says Professor Huxley at the close of a recent course of lectures, " are twin-sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both.
Seite 10 - ... writer were daily saluted with praises couched in superlative language. Suppose the wisdom, the grandeur, the beauty of his works, were the constant topics of the eulogies addressed to him. Suppose those who unceasingly uttered these eulogies on his works were content with looking at the outsides of them; and had never opened them, much less tried to understand them. What value should we put upon their praises? What should we think of their sincerity?
Seite 10 - So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious — it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious. Take a humble simile.
Seite 9 - The great deeds of philosophers have been less the fruit of their intellect than of the direction of that intellect by an eminently religious tone of mind. Truth has yielded herself rather to their patience, their love, their single-heartedness and their self-denial, than to their logical acumen.
Seite 134 - ... large ship, seems only to move the boat : but he really moves the ship a little, for, supposing the resistance of the ship to be just a thousand times greater than that of the boat, a thousand men in a thousand boats, pulling simultaneously in the same manner, would make the ship meet them half way.
Seite 101 - The author must not conclude without observing, that no treatise on Natural Philosophy can save, to a person desiring full information on the subject, the necessity of attendance on experimental lectures or demonstrations. Things that are seen, and felt, and heard, that is, which operate on the external senses, leave on the memory much stronger and more correct impressions than where the conceptions are produced merely by verbal description, however vivid.
Seite 47 - ... education should work toward one end. Certainly it cannot be the duty of one department to tear down what another constructs. It is my purpose to speak of culture as we generally use the term when we speak of culture courses, liberal education, etc. No one needs imagination more than the investigator and no one has a better opportunity to cultivate it than the teacher of physics. The scientist and the humanist have not conflicting duties — indeed there is no occasion to make a distinction between...