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?
Yep, and Richard Feynmann said odd things about his breakthroughs in the past, about them not coming from a traditional, rational method.
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