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Originally Posted by renormalised
You know why Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge, Alex???
He said that because ultimately it is.....knowledge is derived from imagination. You can have all the knowledge you like but if you can't see beyond what you already know, you go nowhere. All the great inventions and scientific leaps forward in our time came from the imagination of those people who dared to think outside the box. Incremental progress in those areas then came from those who did the hard graft, and the long plod.
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It is more than obvious why he said it Carl.
On a personal level I am happy to support such a notion and use it in defence of my lack of knowledge in certain areas however that seems a grab driven from ego rather than a reality that you really need to know stuff.
I can imagine a whole universe working whichever way...GR
, push
electric
or even one with God
...means zip really other than I could hold a conversation with anyone in their universe limiting myself to their approach and belief...but at the gutz of it my imagination needs many facts (knowledge)... I could not hold a view of any universe in my mind without knowing a great deal or rather imagination wont get me all the way.
I am very happy to have a good imagination... one can invent things, make up movies and run them in your head, or imagine multiple senerios without much more than thought...
Actually we should post each quote separately and discuss its merit or inconsistency within reality...using various realities of course
Keep up the great work
alex
As you know and demonstrate there is a great deal to understand before you can even comment upon even the existence of pop 1, 2 3 starsz etc and as you well know one needs a great deal of knowlegde before you can "imagine" the next step.
Maybe I take for granted that I enjoy a powerful imagination and I could see how one not blessed with such could see it as more important ..and I am not suggesting that you have anything other than a wonderful imagination..I have noted you enjoy aq powerful imaqgination but suggest your knowledge is what pays the bills finally.
Really our ideas are similar I think it is imagination that takes things forward but in our world the reality is imagination is feared to a degree and something we dont want in our workers, or our subjects... in fact we dont want them to have any more knowledge than they need to do their job or fit their role in the system.
I like the fact your posts are lenghty by some folks standards...it shows you give matters considerable thought...
alex