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题目:ISSUE73 - "In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge."
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日期:2011-3-24 10:34:54
I basically agree with this statement. In fact, nowadays, in academic world, too many researchers are focusing on developing some old theories and may just synthesize the others' idea to fix a "new" one, or being trapped in some problems within old ways of solution. In this sense, we do need to pay more attention on imagination. However, we should notice that fundamental knowledge is indispensible to researchers, especially in certain academic fields. Therefore, the professions would rather take both aspects into their work.
Imagination means the ability to innovate, which is certainly needed in profession and academic fields. Fundamentally, researching means to find something new, to create new world of science or art. Back to the history of painting, we can see how significant the imagination is. In the ancient Greece, painters were just like the photographers of the noblemen and were not allowed to express their own ideas and plug their feelings in their works. And the works back then seemed to be dull as a result. After that, the romantic style came out, which means arts are free to express their imagination in works, such as the post-impressionism, eager to reflect their own feelings in normal scenes of daily life in the painting. Within this revolution of imagination, master pieces such as "impression, sunrise", "sun flower" "the filter" would be made possible existing. Also, in scientific fields, such as the physics, imagination is even more important. Without imagination, Abort Einstein would not be able to discovery the relative theory. Without imagination, the string theory would be totally nothing. Like Feynman, an intelligent and well-know physician was appraised: there are two types of great scientists, one type would make other think that they can achieve the same thing within enough endeavor; yet the other type of scientists would make their own discovery resemble a magic, and they are just like magicians, full of imagination. In fact, Feynman himself would not know how Einstein discovery the mythology of the universe.
However, basic knowledge is indispensible for further innovation, especially in applied professions. To look for an apt example, one needs look no further than the architecture works. Undeniably, the imagination in aesthetic way is the core spirit of an architect, however, absent the basic knowledge of mechanics and constructing limits, the buildings created would risk being impossibly realized. Therefore, the best architects are always good structure engineers at the first place. Also, even in art fields, basic knowledge is always being asked. For example, Vinci, the famous painter, was asked to draw eggs for a long time when he was a student. And this basic training benefits him to create more enchanting works. Clearly, all imagination would be based on concert knowledge in the same field.
In this sense, the researchers and experts should take both sides into consideration, in other words, prepare themselves with highly-equipped academic knowledge level, meanwhile, keep the enthusiasm of imagination and dare to innovate. Only in this way, can the professions and the researchers make real contributions to benefit the particular academic fields. |
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