Josiah Parsons Cooke Quote

In following out our theories of education, we avoid Scylla only to encounter Charybdis, and so, in specializing our courses of laboratory instruction, there is great danger of falling into the mechanical routine of a technical art, and losing sight of those grand ideas and generalizations which give breadth and dignity to scientific knowledge.

Scientific Culture: And Other Essays (2nd edition), Preface (pp. vi-vii)