Imagination Quotes

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

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"Life's complexity is nature's demonstration of infinite possibility."
Hugo de Vries
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"Imagination without knowledge is merely fancy."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Imagination constrained by facts becomes discovery."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The chief function of the imagination is to help us to make sense of the world."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The world is full of possibilities; the challenge is to see them."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"In every creature lives a testament to life's boundless creativity."
Richard Owen
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"Nature's profusion of forms teaches us that creativity has no limits."
Richard Owen
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"In every creature lies proof that the universe is far more imaginative than we are."
Richard Owen
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all human innovation."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Imagination unbound creates the future we will inhabit."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Observation without wonder is mere cataloguing."
Jan Swammerdam
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"The eye that sees truly has been opened by wonder."
Jan Swammerdam
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"The microscope is merely an extension of the curious mind."
Jan Swammerdam
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"Nature's designs teach us more than our imagination could invent."
Georges Cuvier
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"The study of life is the study of possibility made manifest."
Georges Cuvier
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"Life's diversity is proof that creation never ceases to imagine."
Georges Cuvier
"The mind is capable of understanding everything in nature."
Robert Hooke
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Robert Hooke
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"In the smallest creature resides a complexity that mirrors the vastness of creation."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"In classification, I found not limitation but boundless possibility."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The imagination is freed, not constrained, by understanding nature's actual order."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Be very careful about the thoughts you allow your mind to dwell upon."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"An ounce of curiosity is worth more than a pound of certainty."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"All knowledge begins with wonder."
William Harvey
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"The mind that remains open discovers wonders."
William Harvey
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"The invisible world is as real and wondrous as all that we see."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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"Every creature contains universes within itself, if one knows how to look."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
"Imagination is the foundation of all discovery."
Sophie Germain
"Imagination transforms the world."
Sophie Germain