The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.
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Chapter 8 “Explosions and Spirals” (pp. 195–196)Richard Dawkins
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