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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

Bernard Lonergan

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Bernard Lonergan
Age: 79 †
Born: 1904
Born: December 17
Died: 1984
Died: November 26
Philosopher
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Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan
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