Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.”
Act IV
The Bending of the Bough (1900)
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Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933Related quotes
“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”
John Updike
book
Rabbit, Run
Source: Rabbit, Run
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section VII, p. 85
Jonas Salk
(1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way. They both are necessary. The way I like to put it is that when I have an intuition about something, I send it over to the reason department. Then after I've checked it out in the reason department, I send it back to the intuition department to make sure that it's still all right. That's how my mind works, and that's how I work. That's why I think that there is both an art and a science to what we do. The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
Ernest Flagg
(1857–1947) American architect
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II