Only an unrestrained imagination can make the discoveries Newton made.

Einstein didn't believe in magic, had a great imagination, and is at least as important as Newton in the realm of science.

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Einstein, like Newton, questioned conventional science; they believed things though impossible by others- "magic", if you will.

into new realms.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

Only an unrestrained imagination can make the discoveries Newton made.

And what you wrote is also true, but to the masses discoveries seem like magic.

That's all I was suggesting.

No matter what it looks like to the masses, to the brilliant scientist, it looks like a deeper understanding of reality.

It takes both: deeper understanding AND the ability to imagine things that aren't yet understood.

There are scientists, true, who only ask questions and find answers.

And then there are inventors and innovators (who need also to be scientist of a sort) who imagine what others think impossible.

I call these impossible or improbable things "magic"

Magic, science, who cares?!

So, he believed in spirits. So what?

...is equally insulting to scientists and to sorcerers.

Somebody had to take a photograph of the portrait. They probably would let somebody put the image directly on a flatbed scanner.

Corbis owns the image of the picture.