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You have to have a lot of ideas. first, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. and second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. i seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and i also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that i should just ignore, and the good ones, that i'd better follow up.
-Linus Pauling
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You Have To Have A Lot Of

Linus Pauling
You have to have a lot of ideas. first, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. and second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. i seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and i also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that i should just ignore, and the good ones, that i'd better follow up.
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