They saw and looked...

:They looked and saw that the pond that they were swimming in was an ocean.:


Albert Einstein was working in a post office to make a living, but of course, his real career was being a student of physics. He noticed some inconsistencies that Newtonian Law couldn't explain. This led to his theory of General Relativity. To get there (to his theory) he began with an intuitive leap, and then backed it up with mathematical reasoning. G.R. deals with warped space, wrinkle in time kind of stuff...but that's not what I'm interested in right now. The thing that sticks out to me is that the definition of reason itself began to change. Einstein changed from linear to intuitive leaps of thought!

Whoa now...are you telling me that he didn't have everything figured out and understood before he started his journey into general relativity!?! ...that for Einstein, maybe intuitive truth is a starting point for the journey...and not necessarily an end?