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 of man can conceive of infinities greater than infinities - this alone proves something divine within us."
Georg Cantor
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"Every true creation in mathematics begins with a question that seems to have no answer."
Georg Cantor
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Bertrand Russell
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"If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a wholly new world."
David Hilbert
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"The essential feature of the mathematical creation is that it does not depend on any external stimulus."
David Hilbert
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"Every new theorem opens a door to unexpected territories."
David Hilbert
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"The mathematician's greatest discovery is not a theorem but a new way of thinking."
David Hilbert
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"Imagination is the workshop where all future discoveries are forged."
André-Marie Ampère
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"Imagination unlocked is power unshackled."
André-Marie Ampère
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"The human mind is like a vast ocean; we have only begun to explore its depths."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"The imagination is the workshop of the soul."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"The transfinite numbers are just as much at the disposal of the intuition, as the finite numbers are."
Georg Cantor
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"I have discovered that the mind's power to conceive the infinite is itself infinite."
Georg Cantor
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"To measure the immeasurable, one must first transcend conventional thinking."
Georg Ohm
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"See that the imagination is bounded by the facts of nature."
Michael Faraday
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"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Michael Faraday
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"The capacity for wonder is the greatest gift of all."
Michael Faraday
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"The physicist's greatest tool is not the laboratory but the disciplined imagination."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Every question answered opens a door to new mysteries."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Imagination guided by reason is the engine of scientific progress."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"The elements are the building blocks of all possibility."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"The most powerful force in the universe is human curiosity."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it vividly."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Curiosity is the engine that drives all discovery."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The universe is far grander than our initial conceptions."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The human mind is capable of grasping nature's deepest secrets."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The mind that wonders will never cease to discover."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
Jacques Charles