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