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 beginning of creation; what we imagine, we can achieve."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Dummett, Michael
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"Imagination is the key to understanding possibility."
Dummett, Michael
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"Imagination allows us to transcend present limitations."
Dummett, Michael
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"Imagination is the space where all creation begins."
Dummett, Michael
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"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The world of mathematics is infinite."
Gödel, Kurt
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"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers."
Turing, Alan
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"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible."
Turing, Alan
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"I believe that something like this might actually be done with a digital computer within the next twenty years or so."
Turing, Alan
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"What I'm trying to say is that we can build machines which will do everything that a human can do."
Turing, Alan
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"Those who believe that in the future, digitalized machines will be able to think, are merely accepting a very reasonable extrapolation of current trends."
Turing, Alan
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"I believe machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields."
Turing, Alan
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"Machines will be able to do many things that are now thought to require human intuition."
Turing, Alan
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"I think the aspect of perception is more important than people usually think."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Intuition is not the absence of logic; it is logic beyond formalization."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The greatest mysteries often lie hidden in the most fundamental concepts."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Imagination is as important as reason in philosophy."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Variables are placeholders for the infinite and the unknown."
Church, Alonzo
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"Reality is stranger than any fiction we could imagine."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The mind reaches beyond what language can express."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Jackson, Frank
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"Imagination creates possibility."
Jackson, Frank
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"The mind that cannot wonder is not truly alive."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Imagination is the only faculty that transcends the boundaries of known reality"
Jackson, Frank
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"Imagination is humanity's escape hatch from the prison of the given"
Jackson, Frank
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"We must develop new metaphors and models to better understand consciousness and mind."
Chalmers, David
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"The hard problem challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of traditional categories and concepts."
Chalmers, David