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 the engine of mathematical discovery."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The power of imagination exceeds the power of reason."Hilbert, David
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Einstein, Albert
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."Einstein, Albert
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."Einstein, Albert
"Imagination is the birthplace of all scientific innovation."Weyl, Hermann
"The imagination of a child often grasps truths that sophisticated minds overlook."Weyl, Hermann
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."Heisenberg, Werner
"The greatest discoveries of the future will be in those areas where the present knowledge is least secure."Heisenberg, Werner
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to what we already know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to discover."Poincaré, Henri
"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."Poincaré, Henri
"The physicist must be prepared to find nature stranger than his most daring imagination."Bohr, Niels
"A scientist who has lost the capacity for wonder has lost the heart of science itself."Weyl, Hermann
"Progress is made not by those who are satisfied with the present, but by those who imagine alternatives."Weyl, Hermann
"The continuum is not given to us; we create it through infinite acts of choice."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The mind, in its creative act, touches the infinite."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The continuum is infinite not because it contains all real numbers, but because we create it without end."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"Numbers are the bridges between the possible and the actual."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"We do not discover mathematics; we invent it. And invention requires imagination."Hilbert, David
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."Einstein, Albert
"The important thing is imagination. Life without it is just details."Einstein, Albert
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."Einstein, Albert
"The most powerful thing in the universe is not force, but imagination."Einstein, Albert
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Imagination is the sister of hope."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Imagination can perceive what reason cannot yet articulate."Poincaré, Henri
"The universe is far more mathematical than even mathematicians imagine."Weyl, Hermann
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."Wigner, Eugene
"We must not forget that the mind of man is capable of grasping the infinite."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"Numbers are merely symbols for ideas that exist in consciousness."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan