“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.” WellsMayIdeasScienceTermImaginationAnswersImagineRevolutionConfusionExplanationYou ChooseVagueCatastropheStoppingInquiryObscurityDisadvantagesInvolving Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope
“Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?” PeopleIfsWantGivingMeanDoeI CanBookPlayImaginationAnswersNovelImagineStageComicComic BookShakespeare Play Author:Stan Lee
“Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.” WritingSelfAnswersImagineLettersNotionSatisfiedTortureScrewsCorrespondenceScribblesLetter Writing Book:Life and letters Source: Life and letters
“I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.” PeopleTryingSometimesNightSpaceAnswersClearImagineCommunicationAreasPatternsInvisibleMake SenseCodeMultipleTranslationsSpace BetweenMisinterpretation Author:Taryn Simon
“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.” IfsHappensPainNextEasyImaginationAnswersActingImagineDangerConflictCreaturesEatingTragedyThreatTheatreWitAriseApplesSmarter Book:Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance
“Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.” IfsThinkingHardAblePresidentAnswersImagineTelevisionSense Of HumorUncommon Author:Roy Blount, Jr.
“We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.” ThinkingWayBelieveLooksStillsBeautifulEnergyLostI BelieveProcessAnswersImagineBuildingKeysPlantContraryHeatEfficientImprovingGenetically ModifiedPhotosynthesis Author:Jean-Marie Lehn
“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?” IfsAnswersFireImagineDoorsFunctionCleanCooksHouseholdStaffSuggestingCoordinatesStoke Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.” StillsDreamDifficultAnswersImagine Author:Louis Pasteur