First of all, a scientist must be endowed with an imagination, for imagination plays no less important a part in science than it does in art. Imagination is as necessary as is painstaking work on collected material. Without imagination scientific work is just an assortment of facts and conclusions — empty, chaotic, and often barren.


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Alexander Fersman Quotes

First of all, a scientist must be endowed with an imagination, for imagination plays no less important a part in science than it does in art....

First of all, a scientist must be endowed with an imagination, for imagination plays no less important a part in science than it does in art....

First of all, a scientist must be endowed with an imagination, for imagination plays no less important a part in science than it does in art....

First of all, a scientist must be endowed with an imagination, for imagination plays no less important a part in science than it does in art....