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发表于 2004-2-21 16:14:26
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Issue 73 “In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Is imagination more important than knowledge in most professions and academic field? The speaker claims so. However , from my point of view, both imagination and knowledge are important in professions and academic fields, and a balance should be called between them.
In the first place, imagination plays a key role in professions and academic fields. Original ideas and creative thoughts are usually born out of imagination. Imaging gives a chance for people to leave the realistic world ,present a space to hang about, and many new ideas are therefore generated(created) in the process. As for in the professions, take Bill Gates for example, who created windows in computer. He may think and imagine thousands of times what kind of interface of computer is suitable for most people and in the end he brought out “Windows”. As far as academic fields are concerned, consider, utopian socialism,(这里consider要不要个主语啊?) for example. Owen, an idealist, who was born in a rich family and had natural pity for poor people, saw the poor suffer from hunger, coldness, disease, homelessness ,while the comfort, convenience and luxury was enjoyed by the rich .The tremendous difference propelled him to think about how the poor can lead a better life. He imagined whether there might be a society in which every one can lead a happy life and people can have what they need immediately from the society without any conflict. This imagination can be the very start of utopian socialism, from which Karl Marx took much and formed the Scientific Communisim Theory at last. Both the examples illustrate the significant role imagination plays in generating new ideas. In this sense, imagination contributes a lot to the progress of society.
However, on the other hand, over emphasis on imagination is harmful, resulting in fantasy, and whimsy. Why Owen ’s theory is only utopian socialism is because he didn’t take reality into account. Owen actually acted on his theory, by perchasing(purchasing) a big block in which a number of people live. But because of its intrinsic characteristic (characteristics) of unreality, his practice failed. In short, imagination is really helpful to create original ideas, but it can’t be over(我看NCE4 都用这个词unduly) weighed
Second, knowledge is no less important than imagination. Knowledge, the treasure of man, is what human has known about the nature, human, and society through thousands of years practice, exploitation and accumulation. The process of advance can be taken as a cause of accumulating knowledge. New ideas are new at the first phase, but will turn into knowledge in next stage. Moreover, no discovery or exploitation can succeed without the light of knowledge. This revealed the significance of knowledge. Newton once said :“The veneration people grant me and the keen perspectives I hold are all but because standing on the shoulders of giants makes it possible for me to see further.” This saying shows knowledge and already existing success can lead to new discoveries and creative thoughts. However, pure knowledge without imagination bears little fruit.
In most cases, knowledge and imagination go hand in hand, adding to each other. Knowledge can inspire imagination. The marriage of fantasy and reality might produce some interesting children .Take scientific fiction for example. Scientific fiction and such kinds of imagination are based on the existing scientific technology, but not confined to it. Scientific imaginations show kinds of whimsical ideas and pictures, stimulating scientists to work out such ideas so that more convenience might be brought to human. Many years ago, when we on the earth looked at moon in the sky, landing on the moon was simply imagination, but comes true now. This example reveals that with the light of knowledge and imagination shed to each other, society can be proved better.
To sum up, both knowledge and imagination have its own value. Imagination is the source where novel ideas start, whereas knowledge serves as basis for creative thoughts. In most cases, improvement is produced where they join hands. A balance should be called to evaluate them.
请问这里的imagination 是不是就算 creative idea 的意思,还是单纯的说是想象力啊?
如果说是想象力的化,那举arts方面的实例更好举一些!
说真的我的水平太低了,我都看不出别人的文章中的语法错误. Sigh! |
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