Advances in science Quote by John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

— John Dewey

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.

— Jonah Lehrer

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

— Percival Lowell

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to…

— Louis Pasteur

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions…

— Azar Nafisi

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are…

— Richard P. Feynman

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

— Robert Henri

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware…

— Percival Lowell

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has…

— Karen Armstrong