Comments on: My Albert Einstein Action Figure http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/107/my-albert-einstein-action-figure/ If you find yourself here, hello. Fri, 18 May 2012 21:49:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: mindspin http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/107/my-albert-einstein-action-figure/#comment-249 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:07:07 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/107/my-albert-einstein-action-figure/#comment-249 Most pithy statements need unfolding. I don't think Einstein was implying that one could or should have one without the other. I wasn't really thinking of imagination as "flights of fancy" here, and I have a hunch Einstein meant something beyond that as well. There is another definition of imagination I think more useful in this context: "The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind." In that sense, imagination refers to our ability to make meaning and purpose of knowledge. Any scientist who expands our understanding of our world does so by means of imagination. It is imagination that asks the questions that generate knowledge. Our answers are never better than our questions. Right now, as I watch the way the world wends, I'm thinking we need to be asking some better questions. Most pithy statements need unfolding. I don’t think Einstein was implying that one could or should have one without the other. I wasn’t really thinking of imagination as “flights of fancy” here, and I have a hunch Einstein meant something beyond that as well. There is another definition of imagination I think more useful in this context: “The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind.” In that sense, imagination refers to our ability to make meaning and purpose of knowledge. Any scientist who expands our understanding of our world does so by means of imagination. It is imagination that asks the questions that generate knowledge. Our answers are never better than our questions. Right now, as I watch the way the world wends, I’m thinking we need to be asking some better questions.

]]> by: R J Keefe http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/107/my-albert-einstein-action-figure/#comment-248 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:47:00 +0000 http://mindspinner.net/wordpress/archives/107/my-albert-einstein-action-figure/#comment-248 Hmm, not sure about that pithy statement. I don't believe that the one can exist without the other, and some (younger) minds are likely to be tempted to regard the acquisiting of knowledge, which is hard, as less important than flights of fancy. Of course I don't believe that anyone under thirty-five knows what imagination really is. Hmm, not sure about that pithy statement. I don’t believe that the one can exist without the other, and some (younger) minds are likely to be tempted to regard the acquisiting of knowledge, which is hard, as less important than flights of fancy.

Of course I don’t believe that anyone under thirty-five knows what imagination really is.

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