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'My view of the matter, for what it is worth, is that there is no such thing as a logical method of having new ideas, or a logical reconstruction of this process.
My view may be expressed by saying that every discovery contains an 'irrational element,' or 'a creative intuition,' in Bergson's sense.
In a similar way Einstein speaks of the 'search for those highly universal laws … from which a picture of the world can be obtained by pure deduction.
There is no logical path.
' he says, 'leading to these … laws.
They can only be reached by intuition, based upon something like an intellectual love (Einfühlung) of the objects of experience.
' - Karl Popper.
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