Sadly, as a sufferer of academia, a blood disease,
Einstein fails to know what's not in his experiential
knowledge base, pointedly, intellect can't lead for
life doesn't follow, yet, without a proof for my words
they'd ring hollow, also.  Growing in the evolution
teaches that while importance is peachy keen
it's also a projection of a subjective mind, ergo,
it could be just something one's pulled from hind.  

So, according to Al, "imagination is more important
than knowledge", because imagination is infinite
and knowledge is limited, to paraphrase.  Yet,
unfathomably, he didn't discern some truisms to

truths that were glaring, even in his times.  Man's
experiential knowledge is infinite, study Buddha, who
was capable of discerning all his life's acts in all detail,
only blossoming, Jesus, etc..  The use of imagination's
usually by those who don't experience "discipline's the art
of feeling awe", etc., studying to vast degrees, so their
imaginations are more limited to their ability to perceive, etc.,
knowledge outflanks imagination in depth, breadth, paradigm.