Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Freeman Dyson
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"What separates us from animals is not intelligence but imagination."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited by what is known."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"Imagination is more important than facts."
Roger Penrose
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"Imagination is the first step toward invention."
Roger Penrose
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
John Wheeler
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"Imagination is as important as knowledge in exploring the cosmos."
Maarten Schmidt
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"Every star is a sun to distant worlds."
Maarten Schmidt
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"The mind's capacity for wonder is its greatest strength."
John Wheeler
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"The universe is far stranger and more beautiful than our imaginations."
George Zweig
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"In the realm of fundamental physics, intuition often fails and wonder abounds."
George Zweig
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Robert Wilson
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
Robert Wilson
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"Your limitation is only your imagination."
Robert Wilson
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"Imagination is the only faculty that can transcend reality."
Maarten Schmidt
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"Imagination is the currency of the future."
Maarten Schmidt
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"The butterfly can be said to be exploring the flowers, or one can say the flowers have evolved to attract the butterfly."
Freeman Dyson
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"The universe has a wide range of possibilities and we should explore them all."
Freeman Dyson
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"Science fiction is not really about predicting the future; it's about preparing for it."
Freeman Dyson
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"The universe is stranger than we imagine, and stranger than we can imagine."
Freeman Dyson
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited."
Freeman Dyson
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"The universe is a more interesting place than any story we can invent."
Freeman Dyson
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"Humans have this remarkable ability to find patterns, even where none exist."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all revolutions."
Robert Wilson
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"Imagination is more important than information."
John Wheeler
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Arno Penzias
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"The greatest gift is the ability to wonder."
Arno Penzias
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"Imagination is the bridge between the known and the knowable."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"Imagination is more powerful than mere calculation or logic alone."
Roger Penrose
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"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Freeman Dyson