One of the ideas that's stuck in my head lately is summed up nicely in
something that the ethologist Konrad Lorenz said:
"To really understand animals and their behavior, you must have an
esthetic appreciation of an animal's beauty. This endows you with the
patience to look at them long enough to see something. Without that joy just
in looking, not even a yogi would have the patience."
I was curious where else that quote had turned up, and in searching for this
information I stumbled across a new online book on the scientific method
written by Richard Jarrard, a geology professor at the University of Utah:
http://www.mines.utah.edu/geo/people/faculty/jarrard/Text/booktoc.html
Chapter 10, on the scientist, is fun; it's packed with pithy quotations
Without reading the whole thing, it seems coherent and potentially useful.
Given that it's free, you might have a use for it in your classes, so I
thought I'd share the source with you.
Michael
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Michael J. Renner
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