Imagination vs Knowledge

Complexity is the walk of life. The world greets us with numerous problems which are obvious but solutions are always hidden. More humorous is the fact that solution to this question is irony. The other well-known “which came first-hen or egg” simple question is difficult to crack. More tiring than to crack “Da-Vinci code”. Why are we dealing with this now? Our argument of Imagination is important than knowledge or not is more intelligent to argue. I have the privilege to argue on it.

People have dreams. Some dreams come true. Not necessarily the “early morning” dream of becoming a billionaire. Long before anyone would have dreamt of flying, one person was exemplary. He was old but optimistic. He was aged but agile. He was musician, artist, physicist, architect, painter etc. He had the knowledge. But more importantly, he was imaginative in creating things. He was an harbinger and never ever people believed in him. Wondering whom am I talking of? He is none other than Learnado Da Vinci. Much before Wright brothers built the first aero flight, Learnado Da Vinci had a master plan using his imagination than knowledge. Do remember that there was no doctorate or PhD or modern simulation techniques or technology available during his time to aid him in designing. Imagination had precedence.

At present times, imagination is not as obvious as was in medieval times. The people uses technology as vital as breathing air. The life does not exceed the boundary of obvious circle of creative imagination which may be reality. Every coin has two sides. Needless to say, we are also good imagination put to good use. Take the example of fashion industry. World over the designers have their imaginary bird fly high than knowledge. Shirts and trousers we wear and dresses they design are the by-product of grinding work of designers' imagination and fascination of color-mix than knowledge of manufacture. Take the success story of APPLE IPOD. For years people used cassettes with walk man and then CD were used in CD man. But the trend was to store more data in a compact and reusable format. Apple had the imagination and could come out-of-the-box to design something which is more a PRODUCT than the BRAND. Now a player that plays mp3 is called as Ipod than an mp3 player. Thats an exemplary virtue of imagination. The same also applied to XEROX.

Are we trying to prove a point that imagination scores higher than knowledge?. May be yes and no! There are ways to gather knowledge step by step by way of education. One may have numerous degrees behind his name but they are trivial if not put to use in designing things by imagination. Finally, KNOWLEDGE can be attributed as an engine which is invaluable unless fitted into a vehicle called IMAGINATION. Is IMAGINATION is important than KNOWLEDGE? Now the choice is yours to choose which is obvious!