Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them. But dreams and speculations are idle fantasies unless reason turns them to useful purpose. Vague ideas captured on flights of fancy have to be reduced to specific propositions and hypotheses. This is precisely why people will listen to an expert with imagination, and probably will ridicule a youngster indulging in flights of fancy. For most people attending such talks or workshops, experience plus imagination is highly convincing, while just imagination running wild by younger speakers is childish because it seems like something out of a cartoon channel. - W.I.B. Beveridge, paraphrased by Max Babi
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:59:08 +0000
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