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Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.