Mansi asks: Is imagination more important than knowledge?

I think there is an intricate relationship between imagination and knowledge, or perhaps better expressed as creativity and innovation. Creativity or imagination is the process and ability to generate new ideas, in abundance. You "imagine" it working.

Innovation or knowledge is the process of selecting, refining and turning the best creative ideas into reality. You "know" how to make it work. Imagination by itself does not allow us to change the world we live in, we only imagine we can.

We can come up with the greatest ideas for a technology or new business process, but society doesn't benefit if it never leaves our head. Knowledge without creativity keeps us stuck in our current ways, doomed to constant repetition and monotony. You may know how to build great gasoline powered vehicles, but what if society is hungry for hydrogen?

Therefore they are intimately connected and need each other. A person who can harness the idealogical and almost geometric world of complex ideas, while at the same time keeping themselves free to imagine, invent and create new ideas, is a powerful force in the world indeed.

We went over this in college and i'm still on the fence. Without imagination we would have no progress, but without knowledge we'd have nothing. For the most part I'd say knowledge is more important but imagination is imperative to success of the human race.

Neither is more important than the other. We require both knowledge and imagination to ensure the success and the advancement of humanity. Without imagination, we would lack the ability to turn our knowledge into ideas.

Without knowledge, imagination serves no practical purpose.

Imagination is just as important as knowledge because just as someone is able to dream about something, knowledge helps them to build it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.