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| Lord Kelvin |
The magazine Science News has published an article entitled Here are the 10 ten times scientific imagination failed, either because it fell short, or because it went too far, with respect to what it was logical to imagine. The study begins by quoting Albert Einstein:
Imagination is more important than knowledge... Imagination
embraces the entire world, stimulating progress.
Tom Siegfried, author of the article,
adds:
And yet while sometimes spectacularly successful, imagination
has also frequently failed in ways that retard the revealing of nature’s secrets.
Some minds, it seems, are simply incapable of imagining that there’s more to
reality than what they already know.
Then he specifies one by one the 10 cases where, according to him, the imagination of scientists fell short or went too far. This is the list, from most to least important (according to Siegfried):
