Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190629021438

And in my turn, I want to demonstrate the point that Albert Einstein repeatedly made, with his many quotes about how Inagination is more important than knowledge.

Could anyone who stuck to strict approved methods of thinking have come up with The General Theory of Relativity? No. It broke every rule, challenged every assumption mainstream science made about the basic nature of our universe. It claimed that Newtonian physics was flawed, and that time, something we long considered the most rock solid constant in our universe... was a fluid thing.

It was a work of radical raving right-brained creative madness.

... and without it, our knowledge of science would not have expanded as it has.

Einstein’s point was that using creative thinking to see what other possibilities might exist was essential to creating those Eureka moments where someone noticed something new.

Remember 2001: A Space Odyssey? Where the ape realizes, for the very first time, that a discarded bone could be used as a weapon? Which immediately leads to him becoming the new leader?

It was the First Eureka moment, and everything after it changed forever.

And then the ape tosses the bone into the air—- and it turns into a space station. Fast forwarding time from Tbe First Eureka, past a long chain of Eurekas throughout history, and stopping at the most recent one as mankind ventured into space.

And none of that would have happened, if a monkey hadn’t developed a spark of Inagination.

You can’t remove Imagination from Science. It has always been at the core of its foundation from the very beginning.

If you forbid people from trying new ideas, you wind up like Warhammer40k’s Emperor of Mankind. Where human technology has stagnated for centuries.

I’ve achieved all my breakthrough by trying wild, improbable ideas. The very things that would make a good story. And I’ve had several successes by doing this.

I’m not about to stop using an approach that works.

If anything, in rarity that people use Imagination these days frightens me to my core. I fear something of great value is being lost.