Imagination Quotes

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It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what… — Carlos Castaneda
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch… — Mark Twain
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the… — William Blake
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed… — Richard P. Feynman
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than… — Voltaire
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then… — Francis Bacon
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see… — Charles Spurgeon
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because… — John Dewey
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and… — Alexander Pope
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson

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