“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck (Secondary source)
George Sylvester’s interview with Albert Einstein.
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“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.”
Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”
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“It was for beauty that the world was made.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
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