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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein, The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929

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Einstein said this to the American journalist George Sylvester Viereck, whose interview 'What Life Means to Einstein' appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on 26 October 1929. By then he was world famous: measurements made during the 1919 solar eclipse had confirmed his general theory of relativity, and he had won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. The line follows his remark that he was 'enough of an artist' to draw freely on his imagination. A similar passage appeared in his book Cosmic Religion in 1931.

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Hayal gücü bilgiden daha önemlidir. Bilgi sınırlıdır. Hayal gücü dünyayı kuşatır.
Albert Einstein, The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Ekim 1929

Einstein bu sözleri Amerikalı gazeteci George Sylvester Viereck'e söyledi; “What Life Means to Einstein” (Einstein İçin Hayatın Anlamı) başlıklı söyleşi, 26 Ekim 1929'da The Saturday Evening Post dergisinde yayımlandı. Einstein o sırada dünyaca ünlüydü: 1919 güneş tutulmasında yapılan ölçümler genel görelilik kuramını doğrulamış, 1921 Nobel Fizik Ödülü de ona verilmişti. Söz, hayal gücünden özgürce yararlanacak kadar sanatçı olduğunu söylediği cümlenin hemen ardından gelir. Benzer bir bölüm, 1931'de yayımlanan Cosmic Religion (Kozmik Din) adlı kitabında da yer aldı.

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