Albert Einstein once said..

[atybimf]

.."The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Do you agree or disagree? Why?

 

[clamum]

I agree because I have more imagination than intelligence.

EDIT: Actually, "intelligence" should be replaced with "knowledge". Haha

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: clamum
I agree because I have more imagination than intelligence.

 

[Slick5150]

I think his point is that anyone can memorize facts, numbers, dates, etc... But not everyone can take that information and think of new ways to use it, or new interpretations for its significance..

In that sense, its very true.

 

[Muse]

Certainly, I agree. Imagination is everything.

One of my favorite Einstein quotes is this one:

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein

 

[kranky]

My favorite Einstein quote which I have used many times is this one...

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

 

[manowar821]

Intellect isn't the ability to memorize data, anyone can do that. It's how you USE that data, how you interpret it into new theories, how you apply it to the world, and to your life. He's absolutely right.

Slick beat me to it.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: kranky
My favorite Einstein quote which I have used many times is this one...

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

:laugh:

That's great.

 

[atybimf]

Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: kranky
My favorite Einstein quote which I have used many times is this one...

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

:laugh:

That's great.

Yeah, it is... and you have one of the greatest sigs ever. I'm copping it for later use, hope you don't mind.
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[Muse]

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

One of the best is the Theory of Relativity itself. It put the lie to Newtonian mechanical physics, was a radical departure. Like it has been noted, "only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

 

[atybimf]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

One of the best is the Theory of Relativity itself. It put the lie to Newtonian mechanical physics, was a radical departure. Like it has been noted, "only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

That's a great one :thumbsup:

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
I think his point is that anyone can memorize facts, numbers, dates, etc... But not everyone can take that information and think of new ways to use it, or new interpretations for its significance..

In that sense, its very true.

Indeed. Google's systems contain a great deal of knowledge, but it still can't figure out how to use it against us. At least not yet.
*click* "I'm feeling lucky."
Screen displays, in red, yellow, blue, and green text, "You shouldn't, at least not if I can have anything to do with it."

 

[zinfamous]

imagination and creativity are what spawn the greatest advances in human society. many people have knowledge, but far less have the creativity to advance that knowledge beyond what is understood.

academics can get too trapped within the realms of "acceptable" knowledge and spout the same tired formulas and axioms over and over. It takes imagination to challenge those axioms and change minds.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

One of the best is the Theory of Relativity itself. It put the lie to Newtonian mechanical physics, was a radical departure. Like it has been noted, "only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

that, and what led to splitting the atom. The vast majority of physicists believed this to be impossible (and these were very intelligent people). A few thought otherwise....

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
I think his point is that anyone can memorize facts, numbers, dates, etc... But not everyone can take that information and think of new ways to use it, or new interpretations for its significance..

In that sense, its very true.

yup, pretty much /thread here...

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

copernicus' heliocentric model of the universe
columbus' belief that the world was not flat
newton's laws of motion

EDIT: changed galileo to copernicus

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

manhattan project, landing on the moon, airplanes, cars.......these were all things that were imagined before the knowledge existed make them real.

 

[Xavier434]

Knowledge can be recorded and referenced by anyone. Imagination is the main reason we acquire that knowledge in the first place in one way or another. Almost all of the best things in life started with ideas. Call it "the source of knowledge" if you will.

 

[angminas]

Originally posted by: atybimf
Any big examples of a time when imagination trumped knowledge?

The Sermon on the Mount
The Battle of Gaugamela
The release of Star Wars, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, etc.
This video