"leap of understanding" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or significant increase in one's understanding or comprehension of a topic or concept. Example: After struggling with the complex equations, the student experienced a sudden leap of understanding and was able to solve the problem correctly.
How far are the dots apart for you to make that leap of understanding?
The "large is little molecule things" meaning the conceptual leap of understanding how evolution at the molecular level can result in changes at the macro level, such as speciation.
The field was obviously ripe for an imaginative leap of understanding.
Others point to a moment in which they felt that they had made a leap of understanding or saw something that no one else had yet seen.
I miss my family a lot, particularly because Noa is at the stage in which important things happen every day -- new words, first steps, leaps of understanding.
The payoff of tackling a mental exercise: leaps of understanding that seem to come out of the blue, without the incremental drudgery of analysis.
Richard, who has just returned from a two-month trip to London, speaks of the need to make "leaps" of understanding that might be entirely wrong.
Einstein's genius rested not with amassed knowledge but, rather, with his ability to make leaps of understanding that others couldn't.
When she began teaching at Columbia, and saw the leaps of understanding that happen in the classroom, she knew she had found her vocation.
"And once you have, you can sit back and say, 'Hey, the rest of my life may be a disaster, but at least I have a solution.' " For almost a century scientists have used puzzles to study what they call insight thinking, the leaps of understanding that seem to come out of the blue, without the incremental drudgery of analysis.
But, of course, feasible leaps of understanding cannot be produced to order.
