Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"The continuum is better understood as a field of possibility than a collection of points."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The unconscious mind plays as important a role as the conscious in mathematical discovery."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"To grasp a mathematical concept is to expand the boundaries of consciousness."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The mind can be expanded just like the universe itself."Hilbert, David
"Every mathematical field is a universe in itself, waiting to be explored."Hilbert, David
"The infinite is not a place but a state of mind."Hilbert, David
"The imagination is more important than raw calculation in mathematics."Hilbert, David
"The infinite contains within it all finite things, and vice versa."Hilbert, David
"Imagination is the laboratory where all scientific discovery is first conceived."Weyl, Hermann
"The foundation of knowledge is imagination."Church, Alonzo
"Imagination is more important than knowledge itself."Church, Alonzo
"All innovation begins with wonder."Church, Alonzo
"The greatest discoveries come from intense curiosity."Church, Alonzo
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, though knowledge without imagination is merely fact."Poincaré, Henri
"The greatest discovery is not in finding new lands, but in finding new ways of seeing."Poincaré, Henri
"The mind that cannot wonder is a mind already dead."Poincaré, Henri
"The power to imagine is the first step toward the power to create."Poincaré, Henri
"The only true poverty is the poverty of imagination."Poincaré, Henri
"Imagination is not the escape from reality; it is the creation of new realities."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible."Turing, Alan
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."Turing, Alan
"Suppose we wanted to construct a thinking machine, and wished this machine to be as general as possible."Turing, Alan
"The mind's capacity to abstract is its greatest evolutionary achievement."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The mind is infinite in its capacity to construct new patterns of thought."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The dimensions of thought extend far beyond the dimensions of space."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"The mind that cannot imagine cannot discover."Hilbert, David
"The most powerful tool is not what we can compute, but what we can conceive."Church, Alonzo
"Imagination is the only real limitation."Church, Alonzo
"Imagination is more important than knowledge in the pursuit of understanding."Poincaré, Henri
"The universe rewards curiosity with revelation."Poincaré, Henri