Imagination Quotes

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

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge alone."
Linus Pauling
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"The future is created by those who dare to imagine it."
Linus Pauling
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"You look at things that are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not."
Ernest Rutherford
"The most important discoveries often come when you're not looking for them, but when you're ready to see them."
Barbara McClintock
"The ability to see connections that others miss is what separates great scientists from good ones."
Barbara McClintock
"Every unexpected result was an invitation to think more deeply."
Barbara McClintock
"The ability to see possibility where others see only impossibility is the mark of a true innovator."
Barbara McClintock
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Niels Bohr
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge in the pursuit of truth."
Linus Pauling
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Ernest Rutherford
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"There is nothing in life so important as imagination."
Ernest Rutherford
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"The universe is far more creative than our greatest imaginations."
Ernest Rutherford
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"We must take into account that we are not only thinking of human beings on Earth but also creatures that might exist elsewhere in the universe."
Enrico Fermi
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"The universe is both stranger and more wonderful than any fiction we could imagine."
Enrico Fermi
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"The most important thing is not knowledge but imagination."
Niels Bohr
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"There is no denying that the creative power of the human mind has scarcely any limits."
Max Planck
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Max Planck
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it most vividly."
Max Planck
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Enrico Fermi
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"The greatest adventure is to think for yourself."
Enrico Fermi
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"A curious mind is the greatest asset any researcher can possess."
Ernest Rutherford
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine new possibilities and test them rigorously."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
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"Every star may be a sun to someone."
Carl Sagan
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"It's only through our sense of wonder that we discover who we are and what we're capable of."
Jane Goodall
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"The mind of a child is an incredible thing."
Jane Goodall
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"Wonder and curiosity are gifts we must nurture in ourselves and others."
Jane Goodall
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"Success in science depends upon the ability to imagine possibilities that do not yet exist."
Niels Bohr
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Richard Feynman