Imagination Quotes

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

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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Whatsoever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
George Washington Carver
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"We are all inventors; we should all be proud to invent something new."
Grace Hopper
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but both are essential."
Grace Hopper
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"The only real limitation is imagination."
Grace Hopper
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"The greatest inventions often come from someone who didn't know it was impossible."
Grace Hopper
"Imagination is the bridge between observation and discovery."
Gregor Mendel
"Imagination helps us see beyond what the eye alone perceives."
Gregor Mendel
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"The flying machine of the future may be as large as a city block."
Wright Brothers
"Imagination guided by evidence is the compass of scientific progress."
Gregor Mendel
"Those who can imagine anything can create the impossible."
Alan Turing
"The idea is that we should have machines that are so intelligent that we need not preoccupy ourselves with their internal workings."
Alan Turing
"The practical uses of the universal computing machine are unbounded."
Alan Turing
"You cannot imagine what the telephone will eventually accomplish."
Alexander Graham Bell
"The future belongs to those who can see it before it happens."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to what we already know."
Alexander Graham Bell
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."
Rachel Carson
"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before?' Imagine you are seeing it for the first time."
Rachel Carson
"Keep your mind alive by remaining curious about life."
Barbara McClintock
"The capacity to wonder is the beginning of all understanding."
Barbara McClintock
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"We possess some God-given imagination to invent the impossible."
Wright Brothers
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"We couldn't see how anyone could build an apparatus that would fly."
Wright Brothers
"Imagination is more valuable than beauty."
Hedy Lamarr
"The future belongs to those who imagine it first."
Hedy Lamarr
"The scientist who loses wonder has lost the only tool that matters."
Gregor Mendel
"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible."
Alan Turing
"One can speculate that if the machine thinks, it must have thoughts; i.e., it must have something analogous to ideas."
Alan Turing
"There should be no real difficulty in constructing a 'thinking machine' based on the pattern of the human brain."
Alan Turing
"A machine can be constructed that will explore a space of possibilities."
Alan Turing
"We must not assume that human thinking is the only kind of thinking possible."
Alan Turing