"You unlock the door with the key of imagination." ~ Rod Serling
Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. ~ Maude L. Frandsen
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. ~ Maria Mitchell
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. ~ Ingrid Bengis
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. ~ John Dewey
The power of imagination makes us infinite. ~ John Muir
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings. ~ Wilhelm Raabe
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ~ Annie Dillard
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. ~ John Ruskin
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. ~ Jules Pfeiffer