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Wrong. An intuition is correct if it matches reality.
Accepting an intuition is only rational if it can be rationally justified, in which case the intuition isn't needed, is it?
No, science is a methodology to determine whether an assertion about reality should be discarded. If it merely dealt with initial intuitions, it's usefulness would be exhausted once the supply of initial intuitions had been run through.
I haven't been able to work out your stance on philosophy of science - have you written about it? You seem at times to be a Popperian, like in the statement "science is a methodology to determine whether an assertion about reality should be discarded."
But a Popperian would expect a scientist to accept an intuition and stand by it until it gets refuted - thus, "conjectures and refutations". It sounds like you'd like propositions to only be spoken aloud if they're logically deducible, and in that case there would be little use to try to empirically refute them.