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Excellent quote.

Essential for science, as well as early modern, medieval and ancient systematic studies:

1) Estimation (often starting with intuition)

2) Determination (what can be understood from #1)

More about Eistein's approach to the sacred gift of intuition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein