The Kekulé snake meme perfectly captures where researcher intuition comes from
yacinelearning · x · 2026-11-15
Yacine shared a meme on what happens when you ask researchers where their intuition came from: a historical illustration of Kekulé discovering the benzene ring after dreaming of a snake biting its tail. The quoted post links Michael Jackson's and Carl Jung's takes on channeling creative ideas—'we all pull data from the same cloud.'
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