Importance of connections

Reading in Whitehead's "Introduction to Mathematics," I was struck by this truth:

(Refering to the history of electo-magnetism) "This rapid sketch of its progress illustrates how, by the gradual introduction of the relevant theoretic ideas, suggested by experiment and themselves suggesting fresh experiements, a whole mass of isolated and even trivial phenomena are welded together into one coherent science, in which the results of abstract mathematical deductions, starting from a few simple assumed laws, supply the explanation to the complex tangle of the course of events." (pg 22)

As we build our classes based upon principle, studying "a few simple laws" and learning by experimentation within those classes, we are able to supply explanations to more "tangled course of events" in the world around us.  How much better when those class times include drawing upon the experimentation of people in the past or in classics, people who tested those laws themselves and drew conclusions that we can build upon?

"It did not begin as one science or as the product of one band of men...Detached speculations, a few happy or unhappy shots at the natures of things, formed the utmost which could be produced." (ibid)

The world is full of these detached speculations...just "google" anything you want online to see that this is true :).  Let us rather, through our connections, help explain "the complex tangle in the course of events"!