In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than
knowledge.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and
supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or
might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
WHen asked about the secret to his brilliant contributions to physics, the great physicist Richard Feynman remarked, "I was just an ordinary guy who studied hard." The prompt suggests that imagination takes precendence over knowledge in most professions. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with the aforementioned statement and will validate my stance with an argument for and two arguments against the claim.
It is true that the impact of creativity and imagination cannot be understated in any domain. This is especially true for fields like physics, maths and creative arts, where originality of thought is what usually makes someone's work stand out. For instance, Albert Einstein's seminal work on Special Relativity had its basis on prior works by Lorentz decades earlier, but what made the Special Theory of Relativity a pioneering contribution was that while Lorentz treated his work as merely a mathematical novelty, Einstein had the ingenious insight to reformulate the equations as the basis for proposing a new theory of Relativity, forever changing our understanding of the universe.
However, creativity would not be of much use if only employed to rediscover known facts, or as they say - "reinvent the wheel". While the influence of creativity in broadening the frontiers of understanding cannot be ignored, prior domain knowledge actually makes a person capable of making new discoveries by building on known information. To quote Isaac Newton - "I was only able to achieve what I did by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Prior knowledge also allows someone to look at a problem in various other perspectives which she would not have been able to think herself. Since each person approaches a given problem with her own insights, collecting domain knowledge saves us from spending time and energy in rethinking new perspectives.
In a nutshell, though no new discovery can be achieved without the requisite imagination and uniqueness of perspective, knowldege of the domain is paramount to broadening the frontiers of knowledge in any domain. PUtting in the extra hours to learn a subject of interest with sincerity and passion allows you to climb the stairs of the tower of knowledge, allowing you to dream of touching the stars.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 465, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...anding on the shoulders of giants.' Prior knowledge also allows someone to l...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, so, while, for instance, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1930.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 360.0 442.535393258 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36111111111 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07103809674 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611111111111 0.4932671777 124% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.2370786517 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.6505816102 60.3974514979 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 175.454545455 118.986275619 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.7272727273 23.4991977007 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.18181818182 5.21951772744 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137465869883 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0480642272296 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.038915010936 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0716915294567 0.150359130593 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439823359872 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 14.1392134831 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.8420337079 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.1743820225 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.4 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.18 8.38706741573 121% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.