4th November 2005, 5:07 PM
Intuition is just a word that describes patterns you notice without knowing how you reached those conclusions. As we now understand, it is best to always, whenever you realize you reached a conclusion based on intuition, to think over what process led to that. Intuition has it's uses, but it has logical flaws.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)