Einstein isn't simply elevating imagination over logic—he's identifying what logic *cannot do*, which is to conceive of destinations that don't yet exist on any map. Logic requires a destination; imagination *creates* one. This matters because we often treat imagination as a luxury for artists while keeping our own thinking rigorously practical, when the truth is that every meaningful innovation (the smartphone, democracy itself, psychotherapy) began as someone's refusal to accept the world as logically arranged. A parent stuck in the same conflict with a teenager for months might apply logic endlessly—analyzing cause and effect—but only imagination allows her to picture a wholly different kind of conversation, one that logic alone could never have generated.