The nature of natural history
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1962
- Retrieved
- Jan 4, 2012
- ISBN
- -P8zAAAAMA
2 memes from this reference
Schools Kill a Child's Curiosity
All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than by some method that leads from narrower questions to broader…
Science is a Progressive Activity
Science is a progressive activity. The outstanding peculiarity of man is that he stumbled onto the possibility of progressive activities. Such progress, the accumulation of experience from generation to generation, depended first on the development of language, then of writing and finally of printing. These allowed…