He uses Einstein and Watson as examples of major discoveries arriving through daydream, intuition, or dream imagery before evidence and research are assembled afterward.
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Watson
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He treats Descartes's angel dream, Muhammad's revelation, Einstein's daydreams, and Watson's double-helix insight as structurally similar moments of inspired knowledge.
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"at every major scientific discovery it all came to the person in a dream or when he was or it sort of popped into..."
"...the sounds way but let me give you more examples James Watson came up with the double helix model of DNA how he did..."
"All right, so let me explain. Okay, so I know this is a hard idea, but genius does not come from hard work. It..."
"...tram, approaching another, and conceives the theory of relativity, right? James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train, then rides his bicycle to..."
"...a tram approaching another and conceives the theory of relativity. James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train, then rides his bicycle to..."
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