There’s a story that a mother, hoping to steer her child toward a successful scientific career in the footsteps of Albert Einstein, asked the famous scientist about the kind of reading that would best prepare her child for such a future.
To her surprise, the scientist recommended "Fairy tales and more fairy tales."
The mother protested that she was serious about her question, and wanted a serious answer.
But Einstein stuck to his answer, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.
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