Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

1929

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Creativity Imagination Knowledge

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Interview Magazine

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1929

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Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "What Life Means to Einstein." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct. 1929.

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