“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
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Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below.
1930s
Context: I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. 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.
“[W]e may... find more common ground than we currently imagine.”
Laurence Tribe
(1941) American lawyer and law school professor
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew
Jonathan Edwards
(1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: A careful & strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of the will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue & vice, reward & punishment, praise & blame...
Franz Kafka
(1883–1924) author
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
Source: The Great Wall of China and Other Stories
John Perry Barlow
(1947–2018) American poet and essayist
As quoted in Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World (2006) by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu
Context: Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs...
