Quotes About Imagination

What dreams you white-frocked kiddies have in the sanctified cloister of your laboratories. You can make yourself believe anything after a while. As long as you can make up a measurement for it.

When matter is put aside, all creation becomes exclusively mental, that's all.

The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions.

All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers. No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

what felt like skin the texture of cooked mushroom.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody

We write by the light of every book we've read.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

If you can't have fun with Science, what good is it? -Einstein

They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are mystified by time. Both are forever starting out.

The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on Earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.

zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.

But all of art is childish, all storytelling, all human hope and fear.

Do not invent anything; simply discover it.

They can't believe a kid worked for months on an original idea, for no reason at all except the pleasure of looking until you see something.

All around them spreads a phantasmagoric, Ordovician fairy tale.

imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

He tells her, on their drives, about all the oblique miracles that green can devise.

How life managed to add imagination to all the other tricks in its chemistry set is a mystery