Humans, Computers, and the Route to Biological Insights: Regaining Our Capacity for Surprise

There's a person – a friend of mine – a microbiologist... I don't want to give his name, but I'm sure you know him. He's a really creative guy. He's able to look at problems that have stumped everyone else, important problems, and while the rest of us are plugging away, following general principles, he knows his system so well, the things that aren't in books, that it's like the system is speaking to him, and he can see what the critical principles are, in the same way that you'd recognize the voice of a friend.