Grasp
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Instead, you should marvel in the fact that, as far as we know, you are a member of the only species in the universe able even to begin to
grasp
its wonders, and you're living at the right time to see our understanding explode.
But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds to
grasp
a concept as large as infinity.
That way students might not fully
grasp
the way it works, but can superficially understand it, learning such concepts as the heart is a four-chambered organ, or potentially misleading statements like, mammals have a dual-circulation: one with blood going to the lungs and back, and another to the body and back.
Unconstrained by reality and the rules of conventional logic, in your dreams, your mind can create limitless scenarios to help you
grasp
problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake.
Have you ever talked with a friend about a problem only to realize that he just doesn't seem to
grasp
why the issue is so important to you? Have you ever presented an idea to a group and it's met with utter confusion?
WIthout a strong
grasp
of the rules of debate, the students simply couldn't recognize when or how often their arguments broke down.
I was welcomed into the home of a beautiful Icelandic family who took me hiking, and helped me get a
grasp
of the melodic Icelandic language.
It's something they could
grasp
onto: "I get that.
And is Prospero the mighty overseer- or is there some deeper magic at work, beyond any one character's
grasp?
But it is within our grasp, technologically and law-wise, at least for the out of print and out of copyright, we suggest, to be able to get the whole darn thing online.
It's really hard to
grasp
what's important today, or what will be important for future generations.
Let's
grasp
the opportunity that is presented by innovation to build better communities for our neighbors.
And we’re only just beginning to
grasp
it.
The last few years have all seen the rise of innovations in how we measure and display aspects of the world that can be too big, or too intangible, or too slippery to
grasp
easily.
As you figured out how to reach out and grasp, pick them up and move them around, you were actually learning how to think and solve problems by understanding and manipulating spatial relationships.
This kind of wisdom is within the
grasp
of each and every one of us if only we start paying attention.
In the 1250s, the Mongols seized Islamic territory as far as Baghdad, while in the East their
grasp
reached southern China by 1279.
Taking detailed notes with a keyboard would seem to be the best way to
grasp
what a lecturer is saying, to be able to review it verbatim.
And when our ancestors moved down from the trees, this flexible
grasp
enabled them to create and wield complex tools.
Manatees use nails to
grasp
their food, and researchers think elephant toenails may sense vibrations in the ground to help them hear.
It would be several months before this infant could do something as simple as reach out and
grasp
under voluntary control an object and retrieve it, usually to the mouth.
So we might engage a rat, for example, to acquire a new skill or ability that might involve the rat using its paw to master particular manual
grasp
behaviors just like we might examine a child and their ability to acquire the sub-skills, or the general overall skill of accomplishing something like mastering the ability to read.
It is due to USA's continuous sponsoring during 25 years of the very good methodology for measuring child mortality that we have a
grasp
of what's happening in the world.
Four or five children sitting behind a desk, and even in those poorest conditions, they all have a very, very good
grasp
of climate change.
If this is true, learning a language in childhood may give you a more holistic
grasp
of its social and emotional contexts.
SB: It was kind of a chance that in the spring of '66, thanks to an LSD experience on a rooftop in San Francisco, I got thinking about, again, something that Fuller talked about, that a lot of people assume that the Earth is flat and kind of infinite in terms of its resources, but once you really
grasp
that it's a sphere and that there's only so much of it, then you start husbanding your resources and thinking about it as a finite system.
And there's no way for us here in this country to
grasp
really what that means to the people involved.
So if you look at this, you might immediately
grasp
that different people have different numbers of connections.
If you change the grasp, it can adjust to that.
Are there things about the universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, but not beyond the
grasp
of some superior intelligence?
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