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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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A physicist ranking imagination above knowledge is a gift to anyone defending daydreaming, and it is quoted that way on classroom walls and creativity talks. The line carries weight because it comes from someone whose theory the 1919 eclipse later confirmed.
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George Sylvester Viereck's interview "What Life Means to Einstein" ran in The Saturday Evening Post on 26 October 1929. Einstein told him he believed in intuition and inspiration, and that when the 1919 eclipse confirmed his prediction he was not surprised; he would have been astonished had it gone otherwise. He called himself enough of an artist to draw freely on imagination, which he ranked above knowledge, since knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the world and drives progress.
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- Wikiquote: Albert EinsteinViereck interview (1929); 1931 Cosmic Religion entryReference checked
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