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I don't even know what Appeal to Emotion is, can you link that for me?

I do know that Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists mankind has ever known by any metric you wish to use for comparison, was a steadfast defender of Imagination and right-brained thinking.

The Right Brain is not about fanfiction. It's about Thinking Outside The Box. Thinking in curved lines rather than straight ones, to try to find rules that explain the observable facts by probing for unknown possiblities.

The evidence that the theory of Perfect Circular Planetary Motion had problems existed for a long time. And left-brained thinkers tried to account of this, without changing the rules, by creating Epicycles. Making the planets move on perfect circles that were -themselves- also moving on circles.

It took a daring scientist to throw out the church-favored idea of Perfect Circular Motion and propose Elliptical orbits. Just like it took a daring scientist to propose the crazy idea that the Sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of the solar system.

These scienstists followed the evidence faithfully, and had to face the fact that their findings contradicted centuries of human belief. Which gave them a lot of pushback from the church, who found such elegantly perfect celestial models to favor their point of view.

Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is one of the most epic examples of Out Of The Box Thinking the world has ever seen.

He literally rewrote what we understood to be the laws of space and time, to create a model that better fit the evidence, so that mankind could experience another Eureka moment, and move a step further on its quest for finding the truth of the universe.

Again, Science was originally created by The Right Brain.

And even if it didn't happen exactly like we see in "2001: A Space Odyssey", where a geek monkey became the tribe's chief by learning that bones could be used as weapons, it happened in a similar way.

Somewhere in time, in a world ruled by titanic dinosaurs, a creature realized that intelligence was also a path to power, as surely as great size and strength was.

And by using this power, they changed the evolution of their species to favor being smart, rather than being strong. A trait that was slowly cultivated and enchanced generation by generation, until it passed to the primates, and eventually to humans.

It was The Right Brain that did this. Realizing that the world could be different, if people tried something different, instead of doing things the same way they always had.

And you'll find that at every key point in our understanding of science, every quantum leap of new knowledge that changed everything in its wake, there was a daring scientist who was willing to think outside of the box, no matter what their peers thought of them.

To trivialize the role creativity has had in Science, is to not understand Science at all.

Which is why Albert Einstein was such a direhard defender of Imagination. It's where his power came from.