Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"There's plenty of room at the bottom."Richard Feynman
"Imagination in science is not whimsical fancy but the disciplined ability to conceive of what has not yet been observed."Max Planck
"Scientific discovery is an act of creation as profound as any artistic endeavor."Rosalind Franklin
"The crystallographer's art is to see the invisible architecture of the material world."Rosalind Franklin
"What we learn is that the world presents itself as a multitude of possibilities."Werner Heisenberg
"The atoms or elementary particles are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities."Werner Heisenberg
"An idea that seems impossible today may become commonplace tomorrow."Werner Heisenberg
"Nature's experiments are conducted on scales beyond human imagination."Stephen Jay Gould
"There is a range of vibrations and melodies we cannot perceive, yet they exist."Carl Sagan
"Science fiction can help us imagine better futures."Carl Sagan
"Imagination is more important than knowledge in some ways."Carl Sagan
"Our curiosity is one of our greatest strengths as a species."Carl Sagan
"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought."Niels Bohr
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."Niels Bohr
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to discover."Richard Feynman
"The human mind is capable of understanding the fundamental nature of matter itself."Rosalind Franklin
"Science teaches us that the universe is far stranger and more wonderful than we imagine."Rosalind Franklin
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first understand why there is something rather than nothing."Carl Sagan
"The known is finite, the unknown infinite."Carl Sagan
"Imagination will take you farther than knowledge."Carl Sagan
"The capacity for humans to think about the future and plan for it is one of our greatest gifts."Jane Goodall
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."Jane Goodall
"An insight into the reality of nature comes from the integration of observation and imagination."Max Planck
"The human species has evolved to be fascinated by stories, patterns, and explanations."Stephen Jay Gould
"Imagination should guide thought."Louis Pasteur
"The greatest inspiration is imagination."Louis Pasteur
"Anything that is complicated is also interesting."Richard Feynman
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."Richard Feynman
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Galileo Galilei
"Imagination is as vital to the scientist as to the poet."Louis Pasteur