Quotes About Imagination

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

A 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.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

To understand is to invent.

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.