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Chapter 1 • Conversations
"When you suddenly see the problem, something happens that you have the answer — before you are able to put it into words. It is all done subconsciously." [2]
 * Barbara McClintock, scientist**

"The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know." [2]
 * Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher**

"I have had my results for a long time; but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." [2]
 * Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician**

"Feeling alone guides the mind." [2] "Just as in other human activities, feeling releases an act by putting forth the idea which gives a motive to action." [4]
 * Claude Bernard, physiologist**

"I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colors I am going to use." [2] "All the arts are the same: you can write a picture in words just as you can paint sensations in a poem." [7]
 * Pablo Picasso, painter**

"...intuitive grasp of an unknown entity already possessed but not yet intelligible." [2]
 * Igor Stravinsky, composer**

"Somehow inside me — I can say this after having written five books — I know that I know where I am going. I know that I know the end of the book even though I don't know it. It's so difficult to explain." [2]
 * Isabel Allende, novelist**

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." [3] "The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in the mechanism of thought." [3]
 * Albert Einstein, novelist**

"Was it science? Our later tests showed that it was. But the processes I used and the responses that I felt were more like those of an artist." [4]
 * William Lipscomb, chemist**

"Intuition or mathematics? Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?" [5] "No scientist thinks in formulae." [5]
 * Arthur C. Clarke, author**

"The stage of discovery was entirely sensual and mathematics was only necessary to be able to communicate with other people." [5]
 * Cyril Stanley Smith, metalurgist**

"In certain problems that I have done, it was necessary to continue the development of the picture as the method, before the mathematics could really be done." [5]
 * Richard Feynman, physicist**

"I have a body language that is difficult to explain. A lot of my work is about body orientation, both in the making of the work and in the sensing of space, comparing it to my own physical orientation." [6]
 * Susan Rothenberg, painter**

"It was not my eyes or my mind that learned. It was my body." [7]
 * Anne Truitt, sculptor**