Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
On my computer I get a new quote from Einstein every day. This is the quote for today. The first time I read it, I agreed but as I was typing it, I read it differently... which made me think. Depending on what the situation is, knowledge could be just as important as imagination. For instance, if you were trapped in a fire, knowledge would tell you (hopefully) how best to get out and survive; but if you didn't know how to get out and used your imagination to find a way to keep you safe... well, it sounded better in my head :) Although I do suppose that it would be because of somebody else's imagination that we would have the knowledge to get out of that fire in the first place. Hmmm.
Chances are, Einstein was hinting toward a much deeper level of understanding than what I can comprehend anyway, so I'll just keep thinking about it.
Feel free to leave your comments or thoughts on this quote.
5 comments:
He was referring that 'knowledge' was limiting for it dealt only with known facts.
Your Imagination is free to work outside of those facts, unrestricted.
Very true. However, knowledge can help keep you safe and respectful of "known facts". Imagination is useful to philophise, but it does nothing to change the known facts. Not right away, anyway.
For the sake of argument, I'm not even considering airplanes as an acceptible solution. Scenario:
Known Fact: Weston can't fly.
Imagination: Weston wants to fly.
See? All the imagining in the world will not change the known fact that Weston can't fly. But he spends all day using his imagination about it.
So while you do have the freedom to be "unrestricted" in the use of your imagination, you DON'T, however, have the freedom to force your imagination upon others. Especially not when they've expressly asked you not to.
Hmm, no lack of freedom or forced imagination was used in my first post…
Sounds like NatureGirl may have a few issues to resolve…
I was just replying to the open invitation about leaving comment on the quote…which I will return to: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
So my turn for a scenario…
NatureGirl and her religious friends hold firm in the ‘knowledge’ that the sun revolves around earth. It rises in the east and sets in the west. Happens day after day never fails.
But then one day a man by the name of Galileo looks up into the sky, notices one of the spheres in the heavens is acting different and using his ‘Imagination’ resolves that the earth revolves around the sun.
Now there is no reason to go into the numbers of people killed by NatureGirl and her friends over this non popular belief…that’s not Einstein’s true point.
The point is Einstein was on the cutting edge of physics, his laboratory was one of the imagination and at that time no one could prove his theories. The “Knowledge” is limited and all he could build upon was imagination.
That wasn't my point.
So much for imagination and reading between the lines.
I'm done talking to you through Klara's Blog.
P.S. You're stupid. And that makes me sad.
Whoa... I'm quite good at reading between lines and AMEN to naturegirl. Sorry Mrs. O.
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