Imagination, good or bad?
On the one hand, it created religion... Bad.
On the other hand, it fostered many advances in science. Good.
What's you opinion?
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My world would be full of much less wonder and curiosity if it wasn't for the power of imagination. Oddly enough, my early love for books and knowledge was what pushed me forward to explore the world using my imagination not the indoctrination that I would eventually leave behind. My imagination pushed to me to continually ask questions for which religion had no answer. It still drives me to keep asking why and seeking out answers to those questions.
Nothing is inherently good or bad that cannot decide its own path.
Imagination in and of itself is an awesome thing, precisely because one gets to envision--and subsequently invent/create/discover/inspire--something into known existence that what wasn't there before. As a rule, I would say that if one imagines something destructive or applies it destructively (obvious example: death camps), it can be horrendous. When best applied, I think, is when one invention/discovery/paradigm spurs on further applications, be it in science, the arts, whatever.
Not only in science but in arts as well. Everything has it's advantages and disadvantages.