Insight

Tom Ewing's Blackbeard blog has a neat little post on the meaning of insight, one of those words that everybody likes to talk about as the main goal of research but no one is quite sure just what it means. Tom puts into terms we all can understand.  He writes:

You know it when you see it.  It’s the thing that makes
you feel good about a piece of research work; it’s the “yes!” moment in a
report; it’s the bit that has you jumping out of your chair and pacing
up and down with the implications.

May we all have such moments and have them often.