Quotes About Imagination

The nanites are like the wildest dreams of Richard Feynman come to life.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Robert Sawyer, James Gunn, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Bova, and Alan Dean Foster.

To a 2D being, there is no up and down, just side to side. No matter how hard they try, they can't pry their eyes or bodies from the page.

Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?

He had read a description of the life of a novelist, and decided his life wasn't too far different. Writing is easy, Gene Fowler had famously observed. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

The easiest way for you to make sense of this is to imagine that you're a two-dimensional being. A being flatter than the flattest pancake, living on the surface of a giant, empty, plastic box. As a 2D being, you can only see the surface of the

Great," I said, rolling my eyes. "We'll get the chance to know what it feels like to be an ear of corn as a thick cloud of locusts approach.

My level of skill? My imagination may be prodigious, but that's a lot to ask of it," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

Bulging biceps?" she repeated with a broad grin. "Wow. Your imagination is even more potent than I thought.

Douglas E. Richards

translating if you will, so that you perceive this room in the usual three dimensions.

Douglas E. Richards

I began toying with the idea of a million human worlds.

instantly see the answer.

The process of creation is the exact opposite of making something out of nothing. It is, on the contrary, a filtering process that makes something out of everything.

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton, (English writer and philosopher)

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton,

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect.

the document now seemed to hover in front of him in perfect 3D clarity.