Quotes About Imagination

La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo

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Regardez ! J'ai dessiné un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.

Es importante fomentar la individualidad —decía—, ya que solo el individuo puede producir las nuevas ideas.

This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated this as an impertinent young thinker, and he proclaimed the principle clearly in 1931. "I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality," he said.69

Scientists who proclaim that space comes to an end somewhere are under some obligation to tell us what lies beyond it.

That is a challenging concept. We can visualize a curved line or surface, but it is hard to imagine what curved three-dimensional space would be like, much less a curved four dimensions. But for mathematicians, extending the concept of curvature into different dimensions is easy, or at least doable. This involves using the concept of the metric, which specifies how to calculate the distance between two points in space.

He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted were at times astonishing, mysterious, and counterintuitive, yet they contained notions that could capture the popular imagination: the relativity of space and time, E=mc2, the bending of light beams, and the warping of space. Adding

You can invent your way to a better place.

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Einstein's great strength: he could look at a complex mathematical equation, which for others was merely an abstraction, and picture the physical reality that lay behind it.

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Walter Isaacson

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

They were gray, staring, bottomless, blank, fallen eyes whose pupils played scenes of heaven upside down.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.

Journeys are fundamentally the same: they begin in the mind, with the image or the story that inspires them in the first place, and finish in the world.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People read for entertainment.

The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.