"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

— Bernard Lonergan