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“I was thrilled when two very competent professors-- Northrop at Yale and the other one I mentioned in the book, ‘Intution’-- both did independent research (one took five cases, the other six) on scientists who had made very great contributions like a Galileo; and they then undertook in a good scientific way to look at the literature, the diaries, the personal letters, written by these men or by their wives to them or their intimate friends, of what happened to these individuals just before and at the time of, and for a little while after, their great discoveries. When did they know they were going to make it? They were looking for something common in all these discoveries. How would the happen to make the discovery? What they found common to every one of them were in their diaries: each one said nothing was quite so important to them in their discoveries as their intuition-- to look in the right direction, this sensitivity that you’re looking to try to do something. Time and again they were really doing an important experiment in another direction and the information they really got was relevant to other scientific phenomena and where they were digging was really subordinate. The point was, they then said, the second most important factor in every one of their discoveries, was the”
