The results of a social experiment with Einstein's quote

Yesterday I read an ambiguous quotation “Imagination is more important than knowledge” in one of the top management blogs.

Signature - Albert Einstein.

The quotation is completely: " Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination covers the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution ."
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Everything is already clear, right?

What have I done

I posted this quote in several of my blogs.

In LJ, the topic did not evoke a response (“It seems that even old Einstein said ...”), with a hundred views directly and through the “tape of friends”. It was expected, but ...

In my blog devoted exclusively to testing, there are only four direct transitions to the page with this record, and 93 of its viewing through feeds. Not a single comment.

In the habrakhabrovsky blog , however, something happened that I hoped for.

Why, Potapych?

I just wanted to make sure that the quote, cut off from the "authority", can be perceived routinely and uncomplicated.

In the context of the phrase looks convincing and valid. Out of context and out of authorship, she is somehow "not very." I want to start with:

• "However...",
• "But if you think about ...",
• "You are not quite right, though ..."

Ambiguous phrase, in short. But if after the dispute attributed to "Einstein" ... The interlocutor finds himself in a not very deft position.

Record rating

• "-eleven" :)
• 40 comments.
• Once sounded " In general, in my opinion, you are wrong ."
• In one comment noted: " Minus topic for disagreement [with its contents] ." Take note of all future and novice authors of notes and articles on Habrahabr.
• In one comment, the full quote is in English. In others - direct reference to the authorship of the quote.

Those who want a more accurate assessment of the results of the "experiment":

1. On some quotes you can not write a thesis.
2. The quote, taken out of context, invariably “weakens,” especially if it is “slightly ambiguous.”
3. A quotation without indication of authorship will “fill up” karma and iris to you, even if others like it.
4. People with practical thinking with abstract quotes are better not to contact.
   • It will be “pulled” to the ground and “analyzed”, bringing to extremes (“ Debris due to inadequate waste of time in a fantasy world will have to be raked by professionals at triple rates;) ”). This is true, but we are talking about more than the ability to combine absolute imagination without difficulty with absolute work without imagination (“work = work”).
5. If the source topic contains the ability to comment on abstract topics (or on topics that are not very related to the source), then so be it. And if the source topic is so concentrated that it does not allow such "waste" - they will still appear;)

Forgive me

I did not intend to humiliate anyone for not knowing the source. But it really can be a shame, so for those who are still offended, a consolidation-anecdote was prepared.

People - thanks! I love and appreciate everyone.

Promised Consolidation Joke

The guy in the disco is pressed for a long time, rubs against the walls, and, plucking up courage, goes up to one girl, inviting her to dance. The girl responds loudly: "I will not sleep with you, you jerk!"

Completely destroyed, the guy disappears into the crowd.

After a while, the girl finds him, apologizes, and says that as a practicing psychologist, he studies the reaction of the crowd. She asks for forgiveness, and ...

The guy suddenly yells at the whole room: "Two hundred bucks for one blow?"

Reference

Quotation source: What Life Means to Einstein article in Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. Wikiquote .

Original: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For all knowledge and knowledge, it is possible to understand. © Albert Einstein

By the way

Today, an entry with a quote without attribution shows "-9", and not "-11", like yesterday. I don’t draw conclusions, the situation is probably easily “fixable” :)