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| How else did a former student of architecture, Friedrich Kekule, dream that a snake was biting its own tail, and so discover the ringed structure of benzene? Chemist Friederich Kekule made his discovery of the benzene ring after dreaming of a snake with its tail in its mouth - these and other examples abound in the history of science. Whether we listen to Clerk, Maxwell, Galton, Kekule, Hadamard, Medawar, Poincare, or Einstein, they state that when a problem becomes difficult they prescind from words and turn to sensory imagery. |
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