Both Uses of
insight
in
Arrowsmith
- Strikes me a fellow ought to use his insight, not just a chest of tools, to make discoveries.†
Chpt 27 *
- It was praised in Paris and Brussels and Cambridge as much as in New York, for its insight and for "the clarity and to perhaps be unscientifically enthusiastic, the sheer delight and style of its presentation," as Professor Berkeley Wurtz put it; which may be indicated by quoting the first paragraph of the paper: In a preliminary publication, I have reported a marked qualitative destructive effect of the radiations from radium emanations on Bacteriophage-anti-Shiga.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(insight) a clear understanding of some aspect of a complex situation; or a tendency to have such understandings
(often such an understanding is new and/or sudden)