Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
~ Luigi Pirandello
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
~ Albert Einstein
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
~ John Dewey
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
~ Ada Lovelace
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
~ Edouard Manet
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
~ Steven Spielberg
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
~ Keahu Kahuanui
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~ James Broughton
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
~ Calvin Trillin
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
~ David E. Kelley
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~ Bill Hicks
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
~ Bryan Procter
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~ Terry Brooks
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~ Plato
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
~ Clara Schumann
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
~ Marquis De Sade
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
~ Blaise Pascal
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
~ Nellie Bly
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~ Ronald Reagan
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
~ Jean Piaget
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
~ Ian Mcewan
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
~ Andre Leon Talley
I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.
~ Dido Armstrong
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
~ Salman Rushdie
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
~ Sugata Mitra
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
~ Joseph Joubert
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?
~ James Fenimore Cooper
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
~ Theo Jansen
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
~ Thomas Merton
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
~ Steve Wozniak
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
