Belief Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is itself poetic.…

— Herbert Spencer

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must…

— Anonymous

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

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

— Max Planck

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

— Ada Lovelace

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

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists…

— Ada Lovelace

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

— Bertrand Russell

“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth