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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein believed that while "knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." He believed that imagination is the most important aspect of theoretical physics but the imagination is also the most important aspect of the Art of Programming.
 

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 1879  -  born March 14 in Ulm, Germany   1905  -  "Annus Mirabilis" - Einstein's "Miracle Year": his Special Theory of Relativity is born   1910  -  Joins the German University in Prague   1911  -  Predicts the deflection of light   1912  -  Writes major part of the special theory of relativity   1915  -  Einstein completes the General Theory of Relativity   1919  -  His theories on the deflection of light are confirmed during a solar eclipse   1922  -  Receives the Nobel Prise for physics for 1921   1923  -  Visits Palestine. Gives inaugural scientific lecture at the future site of the Hebrew University   1933  -  After leaving Germany upon Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he heads for Princeton University   1952  -  Offered the presidency of Israel by Ben-Gurion. Politely declines   1955  -  Dies on April 18, at the age of 76   At age 26, Einstein formulates the equation E=mc2 (the energy content of a body is equal to the mass of the body times the speed of light squared). Einstein's famous equation probably the only physics equation to have recognition on the street. For more information visit: Albert Einstein's Quotes: "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." "You must be able distinguish between what is true and what is real." "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute." "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious... I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life." "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." "All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field." "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." "What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice at the risk of pleasing no one." Person of the Century Albert Einstein named TIME Magazine's Person of the Century. "The genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed." "He had a straight moral sense that others could not always see, even other moral people." History of Relativity A Brief History of Relativity Who Mattered and Why? "If you had to describe the century's geopolitics in one sentence, it could be a short one: Freedom won. Free minds and free markets prevailed over fascism and communism." Why War? Why War? A correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud