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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. -- Steven Spielberg
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. -- Cyril Connolly
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. -- Hari Kunzru
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
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. -- Nicolas Cage
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
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. -- Sofia Kovalevskaya
I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators. -- Lisa Gansky
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination. -- Emma Caulfield
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me. -- Alan Lightman
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. -- Gerald Edelman
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. -- Mark Bradford
We especially need imagination in science. -- Maria Mitchell
Science does not know its debt to imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We especially need imagination in science. Question everything. -- Maria Mitchell
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. -- Voltaire
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. -- John B. S. Haldane
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. -- Ingrid Bengis
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. -- Bertrand Russell
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science. -- Robert Henri
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction. -- Lani Tupu
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. -- Jimi Hendrix
It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. -- Steven Spielberg
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. -- Percival Lowell
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. -- Ada Lovelace
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future. -- Bernard Werber
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. -- Richard Dawkins
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life. -- Bruce Sterling
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination. -- Erich Fromm
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination. -- Freeman Dyson
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
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together. -- Jacob Bronowski
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. -- Voltaire
At bottom each "exact" science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination. -- Reginald Aldworth Daly
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing. -- Nicolas Cage
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. -- Antonio Damasio

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