Intuition Is The Gift, Reason The Servant by Rick Doble

  Intuition Is The Gift,  

  Reason The Servant  
(Text, design & research by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

There comes a point where the mind takes a leap 

— call it intuition or what you will — 

and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, 

but can never prove how it got there. 

All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

Albert Einstein

Rembrandt's etching of Dr. Faustus in his study, 

receiving an inspirational understanding.

 Before he called it "gravity" 

 before he did the math 

 Newton knew 

 what held things together 

From Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)

in which he gave a detailed explanation of the forces of gravity.

 Before relativity 

 before his equations 

 Einstein 

 imagined chasing 
 a beam of light 

 and understood - 

 what would take him a decade 

 to prove on paper 

Einstein's universe in which space itself is affected by gravity.