Quotes About Imagination

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

Si utilizara el ingenio que los buenos espíritus me dieron, entonces diría que esta dama no puede existir, pues ¿qué hombre en su sano juicio llamaría al sueño realidad? Sin embargo yo preferiría no ser cuerdo y prestar crédito a mis ojos hechizados

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.

Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.

I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason.

You are easy to explain – even to you.  You may call yourself a soul if that pleases you, but what you are is a nexus of electromagnetic forces, so arranged that all the interconnections and interrelationships are exactly imitative of those of your brain in your Universe-existence – down to the smallest detail.  Therefore you have your capacity for thought, your memories, your personality.  It still seems to you that you are you.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required.

To have good ideas, we need to consume good ideas too. Follow your curiosity.

Yok olmaktan kurtulanlar?n pek az?n? teÅŸkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine a??k etti. Bizim d??a dönük dünyam?z?n tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir ÅŸeyler var.

The Dantean conceptions of Inferno were childish and unworthy of the divine imagination: fire and torture. Boredom is much more subtle. The inner torture of a mind unable to escape itself in any way, condemned to fester in its own exuding mental pus for all time, is much more fitting.

Science fiction is important because it fights the natural notion that there's something permanent about things the way they are right now.

so that one has to say 'I/we/Gaia' as an invented pronoun to express the inexpressible.

el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

Isaac Asimov

The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky by John Barnes.

NEMESIS THE GODS THEMSELVES FANTASTIC VOYAGE I, ASIMOV

He was not one of those dull-witted, unimaginative men of nerveless meat who were too stupid ever to be afraid

Quieres ver el libro que traigo? -dijo Harlan. - ¿Es posible que lleves esos libros encima? - ¿Por qué no? El viaje en la cabina lleva bastante tiempo. No hay ninguna necesidad de desperdiciarlo.

calzoncillos.

Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough?

It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed them. But he had finally accepted even death to be human, and the sacrifice was too great to be rejected.

The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the googol, which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics. Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.