Albert Einstein...who is he?
(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born
theoretical physicist who developed the theory of
general relativity, effecting a revolution in
physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of
modern physics and one of the most prolific
intellects in human history.He received the
1921Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the
photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing
quantum theory within physics.
Imagination in this sense, not being limited to the acquisition of exact knowledge by the requirements of practical necessity, is, up to a certain point, free from objective restraints. The ability to imagine one's self in another person's place is very important to social relations and understanding.
Albert Einstein said, "Imagination ... is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
“If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name.”
– Adrienne Rich
