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