“All great scientific discoveries, supposedly the great works of ‘reason’, are in fact the result of intuitions and sudden grasp of ideas. And all such sudden grasp and reaching is based on what in other circumstances, would be called a kind of religious intoxication: it depends on a state of the mind where the perceiving part of the intellect is absolutely focused, limpid, yet driven by the most relentless energy, an energy to penetrate.”
