Quotes About Imagination

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

Nature engenders the science of painting

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.