Quotes About Imagination

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.