Quotes About Imagination

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.