Carlo Rubbia Quote

Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting, or music or something.

In: Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards, Passionate Minds, Asking Nature (p. 197), Oxford University Press. 1977

Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a...

Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a...

Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a...

Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a...