![]() ![]() Scientists and artists need only four tools-a pencil, some paper, a waste-bin-and their imagination. ![]() It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” ![]() For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. In his 1931 book Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms, Albert Einstein states: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. But for the truly great theories and ideas to emerge, the imagination must be brought to bear. The backbone of science is empiricism, based on experiment and observation. In the play Back to Methuselah (George Bernard Shaw, 1921), the Serpent says to Adam and Eve: “I hear you say ‘Why?’ Always ‘Why?’ You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ![]()
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