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Does Science Need Snake Dream Breakthroughs?

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The most memorable achievement of 19th Century chemist August Kekule was discovering the shape of the benzene molecule, a six-membered ring of carbon atoms.

What’s memorable about the discovery to non-chemists is how he claimed to have made it: it came to him in a dream about the mythic ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail.

Kekule’s dream is often cited as an example of how we shouldn’t care where a scientific hypothesis comes from. Any new idea is worth testing.

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