Einstein said:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress."
Why did Albert Einstein play the violin? He played monstrously. But he didn’t stop. I am sure that playing music in his case switched his head to a different mode of work. It seemed to free the brain from the beaten path.
The history of all discoveries is written on other tracks. You walk and walk, you falter, you hit yourself, and—priests, that’s it! Why didn’t you find this answer at home? Unobvious reasons, events from another area led you to this discovery.
That's why you need to teach everything. Physics or mathematics need to be taught in music, painting, and dancing. So that they can go in any direction - after all, it is not known where they will find their discovery.
Yes, a new idea comes suddenly and intuitively. Einstein also said this, by the way. But first you need to become Einstein and search for this idea for a long time. Somehow the great chemist’s cook didn’t dream of the periodic table, he dreamed of it! He just tormented her in his head for a very long time before this. The solution of intellectual work must reach a certain concentration. And then will come intuition or inspiration, which Einstein believed in very much and considered a real factor in scientific research.
Tatyana Chernigovskaya, from the lecture “Confused Man - Homo Confusus and the New Digital Reality.”