🌠 Imagination is more important than knowledge 📚
Albert Einstein is widely credited with coining the following belief: "imagination is more important than knowledge."
Here is a closer look, with a few excerpts from the October 26, 1929 article in The Saturday Evening Post entitled What Life Means to Einstein - An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck.
Einstein: “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of relativity, I was convinced that their conclusions would tally with my hypothesis. I was not surprised when the eclipse of May 29, 1919, confirmed my intuitions. I would have been surprised if I had been wrong.”
Viereck: “Then you trust more to your imagination than to your knowledge?”
Einstein: “I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
I wonder how Einstein conceived of and formulated this belief? Did he imagine it to be so? Or, did he use his vast stores of knowledge to reason that is must be so?
And how about the future of the STEEM blockchain, @steemit, busy.org, and the many other new products and services that this wonderful crypto-based technology will surely enable?
How do you see the importance of knowledge versus imagination?
Is more emphasis on marketing and business vision required to drive this train (i.e. imagine the services and features that will "delight" the world)?
Or should the major focus be on partnering and recruitment of better engineering and software development talent that has the knowledge to "build it so they will come?"
I keep thinking of the Dash treasury fund (i.e. Decentralized Governance by Blockchain (DGBB)) that diverts 10% of the block rewards to fund various projects and advance the state-of-the-art of the Dash eco-system.
I think the answer is that we need both. What do you think?
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It's as if imagination is devoid of knowledge or equally knowledge is devoid of imagination. Clearly they are counterparts and without knowledge there is no imagination, and without imagination there is no knowledge: paradoxical.
Agree @baah, it's hard to think too deeply about one without wondering how it's affected by the other? Chicken and egg.
They are counterparts, they work together at all times. Granted experience comes first before imagination and it's hard to see that imagination predates experience and therefore knowledge, it's of no consequence, they are not separate or apart from one another as Einstein wants to paint it, they are not above one another, they are working in tandem with one another, counterparts.
Kind of like wave-particle duality.
lol, no, like the very real not simply theoretical, knowledge and imagination, imagination getting content from knowledge and knowledge being developed from imagination.