Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

“No avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.”

— XKCD

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

— Stephen Hawking

“Time travel..will never be impossible forever.”

— Toba Beta

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

— Guillaume Musso

“Anyone who says time travel is impossible has never had to relive the memories of past traumas or mistakes.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however,…

— James A. Murphy

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind…

— Paul MacCready

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

— Fausto Cercignani

“... stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.”

— Paul Wilkes

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot.…

— Trent Reznor

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

— Daniel Goleman