...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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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to read more
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
