Dream Quote by Lucio Russo

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in…

— Billy Corgan

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

— Freeman Dyson

“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear of grand…

— Peter Sloterdijk

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

— Robin Sloan

The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to…

— Henri Poincare

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

— Michael Crichton

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that…

— Hannah Arendt