Quotes About Imagination

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Art can contradict Science.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.