handofdave wrote: Moon Cat wrote: You might even argue that a tendency to the irrational even in science might be beneficial in a visionary "haha they all said I was mad..!" kinda way.
Some scientific revelations cross over into very unscientific territory... scientists arriving at understanding of thorny problems facing them in dreams, for example. Didn't Watson or Crick flash onto the structure of DNA in a dream?
Francis Crick was supposedly on acid when he envisaged the double helix structure. Nice research Frank!
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