Einstein misquoted?

Curious3141

Quote by Ryan_m_b

Delphic statements like this should be taken as seriously if they came from Einstein as if they came from the local tramp.

Ironically, sans any prior knowledge of Einstein, he could easily have been mistaken for the local tramp, what with the unkempt hair and all.

alt

Quote by biocykle

"As others have confirmed, some 'Bashar' fruitcake. I recall coming across his 'poetic material' some years ago.

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"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution..."

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How poignant, then, that an utterly positive, poetic, life-enforcing, empowering, funny, smart etc. message (out of which the misattributed phrase was lifted) is single-handedly written off as "some fruitcake" by the very same person who admires Einstein's belief in imagination, intuition and inspiration over cold knowledge.

Or, ironic? Does it have to be 'scientific' imagination to count?

I checked the website of that Darryl Anka, and he did seem quite fruity to me, channelling spirits (Bashar) 'n all. Incidently, there are a couple of poets with the name Bashar, particularly one famous arabic one, and I suppose I read too quickly and mixed the two (Anka and Bashar).

I do take your point though - a good one - similar quotes from two very different people.

Fredrik

Do I really need to explain why we don't like to see garbage statements described as science? One of the reasons is of course that it makes it harder for people to tell the difference between science and garbage.

To point that out is nothing at all like religious fundamentalism, so don't pretend that it is.

Darryl Anka is just a man who thinks the voice in his head belongs to an extraterrestrial. This is not the sort of stuff that's discussed in this forum. If you want to discuss Anka's auditory hallucinations with people who know some science, I recommend http://forums.randi.org.

Please don't link to crackpot stuff. It's against the forum rules.

Evo

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