You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Imagination is the air of mind.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of read more

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the read more

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks read more

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science.