¶ Cosmic Fishing
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Cosmic Fishing:
"turn away to light a cigarette, go for lunch, forget to write it down and it is gone and that fish never comes back.
"In a survey of the diaries, letters, and scientific notebooks of six historically celebrated great scientists’ contributions to humanity (where the notes, letters, and diaries, were inspected only for a short period before the scientist made his great discovery as well as at the time he made the discovery and for a short period thereafter); it is common to all those scientists’ great discoveries that all of them make it clear that the number one factor leading to their successful discovery was the intuition of the scientist–something that made them turn suddenly in the right direction from another preoccupation. Then they also make clear the second most important factor was the second intuition which came seconds later about what they ought to do about the mind-discovered phenomena in order to bring its significance to bear on human knowledge and to probably thereby enhance the survival advantage of humanity.
“I pointed out to Ed that the cosmic fisherman was always occupied in opposite directions when the delicate intuition”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Buck Williamson, Amherst, 'A; 5 i’ay’77
