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 mind that can wonder is the mind that can discover."
Sydney Brenner
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"The imagination to see what is unseen is the scientist's true instrument."
Sydney Brenner
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"Imagination without discipline is mere fantasy; discipline without imagination is mere routine."
Sydney Brenner
"To be a researcher is to be forever young—always asking questions as if seeing the world for the first time."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"To see the world as a scientist is to see it as an infinite mystery—this is the source of eternal youth."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"Behind closed laboratory doors, imagination and rigor dance an eternal waltz."
Oswald Avery
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"The mind that asks 'why not?' is the mind that makes discoveries."
Max Delbrück
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"In the laboratory, we learn that nature is far more creative than we are."
Max Delbrück
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"The imagination must be guided by evidence"
Hugo de Vries
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"Imagination guided by evidence creates progress"
Hugo de Vries
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"The microscope reveals not just the structure of life, but the architecture of possibility."
Oswald Avery
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"The mind of man is capable of anything."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"The power of the human mind is virtually unlimited."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"The imagination of the scientist is boundless."
Richard Owen
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"Imagination grounded in evidence leads to truth."
Richard Owen
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"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Imagination without observation produces fantasy; observation without imagination produces mere cataloguing."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Imagination guided by reason produces scientific innovation."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"The naturalist must never cease wondering at the world."
Richard Owen
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"Every organism is a unique expression of nature's possibilities."
Richard Owen
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"A mind without curiosity is a garden without flowers."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The scientist's greatest tool is wonder."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"In examining a single bone, I can reconstruct an entire universe of life."
Georges Cuvier
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"Nature's palette contains more colors than human imagination can conceive."
Hugo de Vries
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"In every seed lies the possibility of a new world, waiting to be discovered."
Hugo de Vries
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"Nature's creativity emerges not from perfection, but from the endless exploration of possibility."
Hugo de Vries
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"Diversity in nature speaks of infinite creative possibilities."
Richard Owen
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"To study extinct forms is to glimpse the pathways of possibility."
Richard Owen
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"I have always endeavored to look at Nature with the eyes of a child—with wonder and reverence."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Nature's experiments are far grander than any we could devise."
Hugo de Vries