Imagination Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

— Albert Einstein

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences…

— Charles Baudelaire

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what…

— John Henry Holland

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

— Graham Chapman

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

— Thomas Malthus

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

— Jim Fowler

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he…

— Dalai Lama

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

— Donald Davidson

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of…

— Karen Armstrong

“This conclusion about perception is devastating for science: If our percepts are theory-laden, then perception is hardly a neutral and independent check upon our…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks