Quotes About Imagination

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through a sequence of intellectual revolutions, constructing theories and promptly shedding them when they no longer fit. The unfamiliar and the strange—these are the domain of all children and scientists.

The potential application of a piece of pure thought can never be predicted

Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as "the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board."?

As an element in the world revealed by computer exploration, the strange attractor began as a mere possibility, marking a place where many great imaginations in the twentieth century had failed to go. Soon, when scientists saw what computers had to show, it seemed like a face they had been seeing everywhere, in the music of turbulent flows or in clouds scattered like veils across the sky. Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.

He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms." (p. 12)

I can't imagine,' I said one afternoon after a long silence, 'how it would be possible for such a small island to support enough artists and stonecutters to build all these wonders. And I can't imagine how all these different people get along without quarreling.' 'Oh, it is possible,' said Nallab, sucking thoughtfully on a mango, 'but only if you DO imagine it...

art stirred the imagination – my God, it allowed the imagination! – in a way that reality rarely does.

Rivers had assumed this person was a fantasy, someone the twins had merely dreamt about or invented, but no, Josh had insisted he was real-real and living in Scotland.

The Poems of Robert W. Service.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

Perception bestows blessing—as the stories sketched in this chapter attempt to demonstrate. Perception brings into being and maintains the being of whatever is perceived; and when perception sees in "the holiness of the Heart's affections," again as these stories say, things are revealed that prove the Truth of the Imagination.

VieÈ›ile noastre sunt modelate mai puÈ›in de experienÈ›a copil?riei propriu-zis?, cât de maniera în care am fost înv??aÈ›i s? ne-o imagin?m. Suntem mai puÈ›in traumatizaÈ›i (...) de întâmpl?rile copil?riei, cât de maniera traumatizant? în care ne amintim copil?ria.

Pentru imaginea final?, faptul c? pictorul a aÈ™ezat mai întâi tonurile roÈ™ii sau pe cele gri sau faptul c? dedesubtul picturii se pot observa linii ale unui desen anterior nu are nicio importan?? — ce se vede acum este chiar imaginea în ansamblul ei, dintr-odat?. La fel È™i în cazul figurii umane; complexitatea È™i tr?s?turile formeaz? o singur? expresie, o imagine singular? ce se livreaz? în întregul ei.

Azi nu prea mai credem în astfel de relaÈ›ii ale inimii. Am fost înv??aÈ›i s? privim cu ochiul genital. Nu ne putem imagina atracÈ›ii bazate pe imaginaÈ›ie. În cultura la care am ajuns as?zi, dorinÈ›a trebuie s? vin? din inconÈ™tientul sexual, leg?turile trebuie s? fie copulative; confesiunile deschise sunt de fapt seducÈ›ii manipulative.

the connection between psychology and literature, to suggest their interchangeability.

Drying releases the soul from personal subjectivism, and, as the moisture recedes, that vivacity once usurped by feeling can now pass over into imagination.

It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.

At least I can dream through it all. And still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Sometime I ride for passion and sometime because I am happy and sometime because I am in another world

By believing that you have a dream. Is why every moment you're focusing on how far you can go.

I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . loaded with endless possibilities.

Sometimes I ride for passion and sometimes because I am happy and sometimes because I am in another world

You want to live all the lives you want. With the possibility of changing the way you think about it.