Linear thought will get you there, but synchronicity or a good metaphor will take you right to the core...

Then there's the dream, the poem, the painting, the intuition, a soulful guitar solo...

You can walk, or Beam me up, Scotty!

I understand the great mathmaticians make the intuitive leap first in a flare of inspiration, then put in the hours or years of grunt work to prove logically what they know to be fact.

Skate back and forth and weave earth and sky together. Though elegant, it can be plodding, so limiting, to rely solely on logic; so disorienting to live above the clouds, to lose contact with earth.