All Science Starts with Intuition

After all, what is a hypothesis if it isn’t trying to prove an intuitive nudge?

My third-grade teacher would have me believe that is a hypothesis is basically an “educated guess,” which is a good explanation for a third grader… but I’m starting to realize it’s more than that.

Perhaps the science is the afterthought, a result that is enabled by an intuitive nudge.

Consider the Buddha, who clearly believed in the healing benefits of meditation long before the science caught up.

He intuitively felt that the practice of meditating was so worthwhile that it spurred an entire religion and way of life.

Whenever a scientist wants to discover something, the path to this discovery doesn’t come out of thin air—it comes out of the scientist’s interest, worldview, and internal sense of knowing.