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“Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.”

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Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

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Book:The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

Source: The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

“As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.”

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Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.”

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Author:Jonas Salk

“The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.”

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Author:John Ambrose Fleming

“Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.”

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Author:Lord Kelvin

“I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.”

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Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”

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Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.”