December 17, 2008 at 14:10Einstein Quote Social Experiment Results
Yesterday, I read an ambiguous quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge” in one of the top management blogs.
Signature - Albert Einstein.
Quote in full: " Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination spans the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution ."
Everything is clear already, right?
Posted this quote on several of his blogs.
In LiveJournal, the topic did not elicit a response (“It seems that the old man Einstein was still talking about this ...”), with a hundred views directly and through the “friend feed”. It was expected, but ...
In my blog devoted exclusively to testing, there were registered only four direct transitions to the page with this entry, and 93 viewing it through feeds. Not a single comment.
In the Habrahabr blog , what I hoped for nevertheless happened .
I just wanted to make sure that the quote, torn off from "authority", can be perceived as ordinary and uncomplicated.
In the context, the phrase looks convincing and weighty. Out of context and outside of authorship, it is somehow “not very”. I want to start with:
An ambiguous phrase, in short. But if, after the argument, ascribe “Einstein” ... The interlocutor finds himself in a not-so-adroit position.
Those who want a more accurate assessment of the results of the "experiment":
I did not intend to humiliate anyone for not knowing the source. But it really can be a shame, so for those who are still offended, a consolidation joke is prepared.
Thank you people! I love and appreciate everyone.
The guy at the disco presses for a long time, rubs against the walls, and, having gathered courage, approaches one girl, inviting her to dance. The girl replies loudly: "I will not sleep with you, moron!"
Completely destroyed, the guy disappears into the crowd.
After a while, the girl finds him, apologizes, and says that as a practicing psychologist she studies the reaction of the crowd. She asks for forgiveness, and ... The
guy suddenly yells at the whole room: "Two hundred bucks in one blowjob?"
Source: “What Life Means to Einstein” article on the Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. Wikiquote .
Original: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. © Albert Einstein
Today, a record with a quote without attribution shows "-9", and not "-11" as yesterday. I’m not making any conclusions, the situation is probably easily “fixable” :)
Signature - Albert Einstein.
Quote in full: " Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination spans the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution ."
Everything is clear already, right?
What have I done
Posted this quote on several of his blogs.
In LiveJournal, the topic did not elicit a response (“It seems that the old man Einstein was still talking about this ...”), with a hundred views directly and through the “friend feed”. It was expected, but ...
In my blog devoted exclusively to testing, there were registered only four direct transitions to the page with this entry, and 93 viewing it through feeds. Not a single comment.
In the Habrahabr blog , what I hoped for nevertheless happened .
Why, Potapych?
I just wanted to make sure that the quote, torn off from "authority", can be perceived as ordinary and uncomplicated.
In the context, the phrase looks convincing and weighty. Out of context and outside of authorship, it is somehow “not very”. I want to start with:
- "However...",
- “But if you think about it ...”,
- "You are not quite right, though ..."
An ambiguous phrase, in short. But if, after the argument, ascribe “Einstein” ... The interlocutor finds himself in a not-so-adroit position.
Record Rating
- "-eleven" :)
- 40 comments.
- Once it sounded " In general, in my opinion, you are wrong ."
- In one comment, it was noted: " The topic is minus for disagreeing [with its contents] ." Take note of all future and novice authors of notes and articles on Habrahabr.
- In one comment, the original quote is in full in English. In others, a direct reference to the authorship of the quote.
Those who want a more accurate assessment of the results of the "experiment":
- You cannot write a dissertation on quotations alone.
- A quote taken out of context invariably "weakens", especially if it is "slightly ambiguous."
- A quote without attribution will “flood” you with karma, kasatik, even if others like it.
- People with practical thinking with abstract quotes are best avoided.
- It is “pulled” to the ground and “analyzed”, taking it to extremes (“ Clogs caused by an inadequate waste of time in the fantasy world will have to be raked by professionals at triple rates;) ”). This is true, but we are talking about more than the ability to combine absolute fantasy without labor with absolute labor without fantasy (“labor = work”).
- If the original topic contains the ability to comment on abstract topics (or on topics that are not very related to the original), then it will. And if the original topic is so concentrated that such "waste" does not allow - they will still appear;)
Excuse me, sir.
I did not intend to humiliate anyone for not knowing the source. But it really can be a shame, so for those who are still offended, a consolidation joke is prepared.
Thank you people! I love and appreciate everyone.
Promised Consolidation Joke
The guy at the disco presses for a long time, rubs against the walls, and, having gathered courage, approaches one girl, inviting her to dance. The girl replies loudly: "I will not sleep with you, moron!"
Completely destroyed, the guy disappears into the crowd.
After a while, the girl finds him, apologizes, and says that as a practicing psychologist she studies the reaction of the crowd. She asks for forgiveness, and ... The
guy suddenly yells at the whole room: "Two hundred bucks in one blowjob?"
Reference
Source: “What Life Means to Einstein” article on the Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. Wikiquote .
Original: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. © Albert Einstein
By the way
Today, a record with a quote without attribution shows "-9", and not "-11" as yesterday. I’m not making any conclusions, the situation is probably easily “fixable” :)