I have no data supporting this (ironically, just intuition), but examples you give might only be a small chunk of attempts that brought a successful outcome. In

I have no data supporting this (ironically, just intuition), but examples you give might only be a small chunk of attempts that brought a successful outcome. In other words, when one tries to achieve something, they'll initially fail and only after some more trial and error they have enough data to succeed. I'd agree that ideas start from human intuition, but above would suggest that intuition is often wrong, so people need to apply it at least a few times in order to get it right. I think that's the point of the article.