The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

Hmmm...I wonder what they were doing while they were "sleeping"?

This, no doubt - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep.

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

Well thank you. I had typed out a response to you in the color thread about how our two perspectives are never going to meet, and I included a huge Neil Gaiman quote that is pretty much the definition of why I love imagination more than straight facts...but then I thought we shouldn't hijack. Again.

Why no hijack? Hijack fun! Hijack insightful!
You'd have to elaborate on what you mean by imagination vs. straight facts... perhaps we have different (incommensurable?) understandings of the terms? My understanding is that of Einstein's:
"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."
Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138
It took me ages before I figured out what he was getting at... admittedly, that was when I'd only heard the paraphrased version, "Imagination is more important than knowledge", though - I only discovered the full version a moment ago.
(Have I been sufficiently disagreeable, or do you require more refutations? )