Imagination Quotes

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

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"What we call empty is full of invisible forces."
Robert Hooke
"What the naked eye misses, the curious mind may find."
Robert Hooke
"In every shadow lies a story of light."
Robert Hooke
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"Imagination is where all great mathematics begins."
Emmy Noether
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"Innovation requires us to see the world differently."
Emmy Noether
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"The mind's capacity for understanding is virtually limitless."
Emmy Noether
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"In every beating heart lies a universe of wonder."
William Harvey
"The mind creates the world in which we live."
Kurt Gödel
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"Imagination is where all discovery begins."
Hypatia of Alexandria
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"Imagination without discipline is merely fantasy; discipline without imagination is mere routine."
Hypatia of Alexandria
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"The boundary between the seen and unseen is merely a matter of magnification and attention."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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"The invisible realm I have accessed through my lenses is far richer than the visible world most inhabit."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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"My observations have taught me that life is far more abundant and varied than we could imagine without instruments."
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
"I have always believed that the intellect transcends all earthly barriers."
Sophie Germain
"The imagination is the gateway to all invention."
Sophie Germain
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Joseph Thomson
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"Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes contracted, and as the concentration increases, one discovers in the distance new and unsuspected phenomena."
David Hilbert
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"In the sequence of integers I discern a hidden order."
David Hilbert
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"The infinite contains more surprises than the finite."
David Hilbert
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"The human mind has infinite capacity for mathematical understanding."
David Hilbert
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"Let no one suppose that the lore of the infinite has been exhausted."
Georg Cantor
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"I believe in the power of imagination to discover truth."
Georg Cantor
"The mind can conceive of things that logic cannot prove."
Kurt Gödel
"The mind reaches toward truths that mathematics can only sketch."
Kurt Gödel
"There are infinite riches in a single grain of sand."
Bertrand Russell
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"The invisible threads binding the universe together are waiting to be discovered."
André-Marie Ampère
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"The universe is far stranger and more wonderful than our imagination."
André-Marie Ampère
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"Nature's complexity is an invitation to deeper thought."
André-Marie Ampère
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"The scientific imagination does not wait for facts to suggest their meaning; it provides the framework into which facts fit."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"The greatest instrument of discovery is not the telescope, but the thinking mind."
James Clerk Maxwell