Imagination is More Important than Knowledge

Einstein is often credited with this saying even though it has likely always been an important idea in mankind.

The reason Imagination is more important than knowledge is that Knowledge is the known which is finite whereas imagination is the unknown which is potentially infinite.

If one looks at human psychology before languages were created someone somewhere had to be the first one to make a noise that became a symbol to someone somewhere. Sure, there were always food noises, sexual noises, fear noises, dying noises. But someone somewhere had to start imagining what it would be like to communicate more details than "I'm happy I have food so I won't die", and "I'm happy I'm being intimate with you" and "I'm afraid because something is eating me or trying to eat me." So, all the kinds of communication we now take for granted all over earth started with someone imagining it. All of us now benefit in a variety of ways from the constant refinement of communcation whether it be verbal, written, or electronic. Even the ways our minds and bodies work individually and collectively are constantly changing as our minds and perceptions and actions change to fit an ever evolving world culture of thousands of micro cultures and languages around the world. And as our conceptions about each other evolve as well as when our conception of the universe evolves, we all constantly evolve into something new and different never seen before on earth and then beyond earth. Whether you think it is good or bad or both(usually both) no one can doubt that it IS happening.