The Power of Intuition - Marie Curie
When you are totally awake, the energy moves from the [brain’s] left hemisphere to the right hemisphere. Whenever you are alert, you become intuitive; flashes come to you, flashes from the unknown, out of the blue. You may not follow them, but then you will miss much.
In fact all the great discoveries in science come from the right hemisphere also, not from the left.
You must have heard about Madam Curie, the only woman who got a Nobel Prize...She had been working hard for three years on a certain mathematical problem but could not solve it. She worked hard. argued from this way and that, but there was no way. One night. tired. exhausted. she fell asleep, and while she was falling asleep then too she was trying to solve the problem. In the night she awoke. walked, wrote the answer on some paper, came back to bed and went to sleep. In the morning she found the answer there on the table but she could not believe who had done it...From where had this answer come? It could not be from the left hemisphere; the left had been working hard for three years. And there was no process on the paper, just the conclusion. If it had come from the left there would have been a process, it goes step by step. But this was like a flash. The left hemisphere, tired, exhausted, helpless, sought the help of the right hemisphere.
