All science relies powerfully on forms of intuition. As Kuhn (1962) showed long ago in his discussion of paradigm shifts in science, scientific progress depends on the intuitive transcending of existing conceptual frameworks. Even Albert Einstein remarked that knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress …. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research
Boellstorff, Tom, and George E Marcus (2012): Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 97.
