“The insight does not arise if we are not familiar with the facts of the case… The successful practice of intuition requires previous study and assimilation of a multitude of facts and laws. We may take it that great intuitions arise out of a matrix of rationality.”

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre… 1888–1975

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