Quotes About Imagination

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Art is science made flesh.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

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Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

We especially need imagination in science.

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.