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This attitude is exactly the problem. It's magical thinking.

Thinking "outside the box" when it comes to industry standards may be a path to innovation. Thinking "outside the box" when it comes to the laws of physics is a path to nowhere.



Postive attitude does equate to "magical thinking".

Check with Einstein and others on what it takes to make breatkthroughs, discoveries and think outside the box in the context of science. With the attitudes of some, we'd never make discoveries!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein

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> “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein

Still Einstein did not say that the previous centuries of physics were bullshit. He built on them to further the theory in specific cases (like his work on relativity).

Taking quotes out of context is very hazardous and does not prove anything either.


“Only two things are infinite: The universe and the stupidity of manking. Although I’m not that sure about the universe” – Albert Einstein.

This quote fits this situation far better.


There's no evidence that Einstein said that. The quote comes from Fritz Perls:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/


Which attributes it to Einstein. The article you linked says that Perls heard it while meeting Einstein in person.


The article quotes Perls saying (in 1969) "As Albert Einstein said to me". That's not evidence of Einstein saying anything, but of Perls appealing to authority.

When Perls published the quip in the 1940s he said "a famous astronomer", not Einstein. He wouldn't have put it that way if Einstein had been the source, especially since he mentions Einstein elsewhere in the same paragraph.

The Quote Investigator is extremely conservative in refuting bogus quotes; when they say "probably not", they mean "hell freezes over if". The readiest explanation is that Perls, a showman who (unlike Einstein) often made caustic quips like this one, simply optimized his story over time.




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