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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Einstein"
They never said that.
What people say
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Einstein"
What was actually said
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein — Einstein interview, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
Why it stuck
The phrase is genuine but isolated from its qualifying setup. The full quote frames imagination as artistic; the popular form turns it into anti-intellectualism.
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