Quotes About Imagination

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine. This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules. Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence where ever it leads and question everything. Accept these terms and the cosmos is yours...

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

We're a sleepy nation right now. I want us to be a nation of innovation.

To picture a pulsar, imagine the mass of the Sun packed into a ball the size of Manhattan. If that's hard to do, then maybe it's easier if you imagine stuffing about a billion elephants into a Chapstick casing.

I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take.

I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien.

WHAT IS NOW PROVED WAS ONCE ONLY IMAGIND —WILLIAM BLAKE

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day—something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.

If the universe is anything, it should be fun.

By 2017, Star Wars had barely made it past the concept stage.

consider a spherical cow.

Had Herschel succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.

THE LAND OF DREAMS Sleep, sleep, It will carry you Into the land of wonderful dreams. The future is waiting for you there— Your future, And your family. Yuma

Pickup is a linear process: Capture the imagination first and the heart next. Interest plus attraction plus seduction equals sex.

A novel is a letter you write to someone you don't know.

I have imagined Helga Crane as a dancer or, like Larsen herself, a writer, but one who would find a way to devise a more satisfying ending than the script the world had handed her.

For a writer, a journey of a thousand miles begins in a library and ends at the typewriter.

There was a big banner hung at the entrance to the stacks which read: "Find Buried Treasure—Read Books." Excellent advice.