It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Dr. James Watson saw a spiral staircase leading to the double helix spiral structure of our DNA.
Dimitry Mendeleev, a chemist, saw a table where all the elements fell into place as required after ten years of research.
Niels Bohr had a vision of the planets circling the sun on pieces of string. When he awoke from his dream, he was able to see the movement of electrons.
Albert Einstein had a dream that he was walking through a farm and came across a herd of cows huddled up against an electric fence. When the farmer suddenly turned on the electric fence, he saw the cows all jump back at the same time â but the farmer saw them jump one by one in a Mexican wave.
German soldier RenĂŠ Descartes had a series of three dreams that spurred him to question the nature of reality. He quit the army the next year to study mathematics and philosophy and created Analytical Geometry.
Elias Howe found himself surrounded by cannibals about to be cooked and eaten. While observing them dance around a fire with spears moving up and down, he noticed holes on the top of the spears. Upon awakening, he realized that having a hole in the needle close to the point, rather than the other end, was the solution he needed for the mechanical sewing machine.
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