Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"The physicist must be a poet as well as a mathematician."Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
"Imagination is more important than knowledge in the pursuit of discovery."Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Carlo Rubbia
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."Carlo Rubbia
"Imagination is the first step toward discovery."François Englert
"Imagination precedes all scientific innovation."François Englert
"Imagination is more powerful than all the instruments in our laboratories."Fred Hoyle
"Imagination transcends the boundaries of what physics says is possible."Fred Hoyle
"Imagination without knowledge is daydreaming; knowledge without imagination is dead."Arno Penzias
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but curiosity is what drives both."Leon Lederman
"The universe is far more interesting than any fiction we could imagine."Leon Lederman
"Imagination is the laboratory where tomorrow's discoveries are born today."Simon van der Meer
"I have spent my life learning that nature is far more creative than even the most imaginative scientist."Carlo Rubbia
"Every answer in science carries within it the seeds of new questions."Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
"In rigorous thought lies the possibility of transcending the limits of our perception."Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
"Imagination fuels discovery more than certainty ever could."François Englert
"The universe is far stranger and more wonderful than we imagine."François Englert
"Every breakthrough begins with someone asking 'what if?'"Ian Wilmut
"Imagination is more powerful than the calculations of computers."Fred Hoyle
"The imagination can conceive what mathematics later proves."Fred Hoyle
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to what we already know and understand."Leon Lederman
"What we call impossible today is merely untested."Simon van der Meer
"Every particle is a universe unto itself, holding infinite possibility."Simon van der Meer
"The universe is far stranger than most people imagine, and that's what makes it so exciting."Peter Higgs
"I would say that imagination is more important than knowledge in theoretical physics."Peter Higgs
"I think the greatest discoveries come from asking 'what if?'"Peter Higgs
"Every great scientist carries within them the wonder of a child."Carlo Rubbia
"The imagination of a scientist is bound only by the laws of nature."Carlo Rubbia
"Imagination without discipline is fantasy; discipline without imagination is sterility."Carlo Rubbia
"The mind that cannot imagine the impossible will never discover anything new."François Englert