...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
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