The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “W. I. B. Beveridge”

The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing
The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing

How to master the crucial difference between the empirical and the intuitive.

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The Art of Scientific Investigation: How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity
The Art of Scientific Investigation: How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity

“Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.”

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On Scientific Taste
On Scientific Taste

“Our taste derives from the summation of all that we have learnt from others, experienced and thought.”

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The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery
The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

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