Nature and Imagination
15 years ago when I was getting immersed in computational genomics I had a conversation with my good friend David Lipman. I was observing that when I was working in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science many of us were highly motivated by the famous quote from Albert Einstein that “Imagination is more important than Knowledge”…
However, in Biology it appears that Knowledge is very important… and many creative ideas end up failing because of constraints imposed by Nature.
David, who has been working in the field much longer than me commented back;
“Perhaps Nature Has a Bigger Imagination”
(see slide below for my illustration of his observation):
All pictures on this slide were found on the web… my deep thanks to the brilliant artists who produced this art..
