Imagination Quotes

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

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"Every discovery begins with a question and ends with wonder."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"In every discovery lies the seed of ten new mysteries."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"The mind that has once perceived the magnitude of the universe can never return to the smallness of petty thoughts."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"The universe is vast beyond imagining, yet comprehensible to the human mind."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"The universe asks only that we remain curious and attentive to its mysteries."
Caroline Herschel
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"The observation of stars teaches one that there is always more to discover, more to understand."
Caroline Herschel
"The greatest discoveries come not from looking where everyone else is looking, but from looking where no one else has thought to look."
William Herschel
"The telescope reveals not just new worlds, but new possibilities for human understanding."
William Herschel
"In the infinite darkness, we find infinite possibility—this is the promise of knowledge."
William Herschel
"The astronomer discovers that the greatest tool is not the telescope but the questioning mind."
William Herschel
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"Sand reckoner reveals infinite possibilities in finite spaces."
Archimedes
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"The infinite is not so much a place as it is a state of mind."
Archimedes
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"The only limit to our realization is our imagination."
Archimedes
"The mind's eye sees what the body's eye cannot."
Euclid
"Polar coordinates reveal another way to understand space."
Euclid
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"The mind creates a world of its own, limited only by the boundaries of imagination and reason."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Imagination guided by mathematics can reveal the hidden order of all things."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"What we have done, is to wake the intelligent dreamer."
Johannes Kepler
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"Man's mind grows with the universe itself."
Johannes Kepler
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"I am convinced that the human mind is capable of understanding the structure of the physical world."
Leonhard Euler
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"The imagination of the mathematician must be as wild as the poet's, yet disciplined by reason."
Leonhard Euler
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"The mind's eye can see further than the natural eye."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"We live in the realm of imagination."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Imagination is more important than reason in the creation of beauty."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"To see the world as it truly is requires both eyes and imagination."
Archimedes
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"A mind without curiosity is a room without windows."
Tycho Brahe
"The infinite is not a number; it is an idea that numbers approach forever."
Euclid
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Johannes Kepler
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"Each discovery opens a door to ten new mysteries."
Johannes Kepler