Imagination Quotes

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

16884 quotes

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"Curiosity is the engine that drives all meaningful discovery."
Robert Boyle
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"Every discovery opens the door to ten new mysteries."
Robert Boyle
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"Curiosity constrained by method yields the greatest discoveries."
Robert Boyle
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"The power of imagination exceeds that of mere reason."
Michael Faraday
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"A true scientist must combine imagination with mathematical rigor."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"The scientist must possess both the mind of a logician and the heart of a dreamer."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"The scientist is a dreamer with a ruler and a compass."
Jacques Charles
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"The mind that can envision what does not yet exist is the mind that will create it."
August Kekulé
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"Imagination in science is not a luxury; it is the very engine of progress."
August Kekulé
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine compounds that do not yet exist."
August Kekulé
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"A mind that can imagine the invisible is a mind that can eventually make it visible."
August Kekulé
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"A chemist's greatest strength is the ability to visualize what cannot be seen."
Gilbert Lewis
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"A true chemist sees in every element the potential for new understanding and creation."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Innovation requires both courage and imagination in equal measure."
Jacques Charles
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"The capacity to imagine is what separates humanity from all other creatures."
Jacques Charles
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"The imagination is more important than knowledge."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Imagination is the only true limit to possibility."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"What we imagine is often more powerful than what we observe."
Robert Boyle
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"The mind has no limits save those we impose upon it."
Robert Boyle
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"Curiosity is the driving force behind scientific discovery."
John Dalton
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"In dreams, the intellect is released from the constraints of waking logic."
August Kekulé
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"The mind at rest is often the mind at work upon its greatest challenges."
August Kekulé
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"The mind that refuses to imagine new worlds will never discover them."
August Kekulé
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"The greatest discoveries begin with 'what if'?"
Gilbert Lewis
"The telescope extends our reach and expands our minds."
William Herschel
"The telescope has made us citizens of a vaster world than we ever imagined."
William Herschel
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"The mind of man is capable of anything because man can imagine anything."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"The mind that cannot imagine the impossible will never discover the improbable."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"The mind of man is the greatest instrument of discovery ever created."
Antoine Lavoisier