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To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Henri Poincaré", "slug": "henri-poincare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare" }, "book": { "title": "Science and Method", "slug": "science-and-method", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare/science-and-method" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 129, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "logic", "slug": "logic", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/logic" }, { "name": "intuition", "slug": "intuition", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intuition" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9#Science_and_Method_(1908)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:02" }, { "id": "3a70ca4a-c743-48e6-9bf0-b8c8bcc8965d", "slug": "logic-teaches-us-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare/science-and-method/logic-teaches-us-that", "text": "Logic teaches us that on such and such a road we are sure of not meeting an obstacle; it does not tell us which is the road that leads to the desired end. For this, it is necessary to see the end from afar, and the faculty which teaches us to see is intuition. 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For all we know, the feeling of unity might be the greatest proof of separateness there is. Who knows? Just because they feel like genuine apprehensions of Truth doesn't mean they are. I mean, if you mistrust one sense, you must mistrust them all. There's no reason the sixth sense might not be as misleading as smell or sight. That's the lesson I've learned from my father, the headline news from the corner that he thought himself into: direct intuitions as as untrustworthy as they are potent.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Steve Toltz", "slug": "steve-toltz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz" }, "book": { "title": "A Fraction Of The Whole", "slug": "a-fraction-of-the-whole", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "skepticism", "slug": "skepticism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/skepticism" }, { "name": "intuition", "slug": "intuition", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intuition" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Toltz#Four", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:11" }, { "id": "a12dc77b-f71f-4dc5-ab3c-e67171bffa10", "slug": "but-what-argument", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/l-sprague-decamp/the-purple-pterodactyls/but-what-argument", "text": "But what argument could I offer? It was nothing but an irrational feeling—the kind of “premonition” we get from time to time but remember only on the rare occasions when it is fulfilled by the event. I had no evidence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "L. 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But intuition could also be something else. Sometimes it was the subconscious mind, establishing deep connections long before the thinking part of the brain could explain them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Sheffield", "slug": "charles-sheffield", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield" }, "book": { "title": "Proteus in the Underworld", "slug": "proteus-in-the-underworld", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/proteus-in-the-underworld" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 149, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "intuition", "slug": "intuition", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intuition" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#Proteus_In_The_Underworld_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:32" }, { "id": "5c9b738a-5814-45d5-bb2d-5991fa878afd", "slug": "i-think-my-inner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-compleat-mcandrew/i-think-my-inner", "text": "I think my inner voices are pretty good when it comes to warning of trouble. 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A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down. We’ve repeatedly tested this prediction, and the results overwhelmingly support Darwin. At high speeds, Einstein realized that time slows down, and curmudgeons on the Swedish Nobel committee found this so weird that they refused to give him the Nobel Prize for his relativity theory. At low temperatures, can flow upward. At high temperatures, colliding particles change identity; to me, an electron colliding with a and turning into a Z-boson feels about as intuitive as two colliding cars turning into a cruise ship. On microscopic scales, particles schizophrenically appear in two places at once, leading to the quantum conundrums... 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