“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
- Albert Einstein, 1919
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Einstein’s most famous quote is totally misunderstood
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.Ethan Siegel (Big Think)
One World One People
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Harshal Suryawanshi 🇮🇳
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •You have to put in the hard work to make an idea materialise but still it all starts from imagination.
Rudy Snippe
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •chaircrusher
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I am really happy that Quote Investigator says that he's quoted saying that in a Saturday Evening Post interview.
About 1 out of 10 quotes I check on are accurately attributed.
NikWord
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