Quotes About Imagination

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.