“It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.” YearsStoriesDreamMovingDiesTurnsImaginationMomYears AgoWakingYour MomFruition Author:Diana Nyad
“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.” PeopleNeedsYearsAmericaNationsImaginationGreaterAwarenessConcernYears AgoCrisisRaisedMathFiftyLackingGreater GoodMath EducationEducation In AmericaSputnik Author:Katherine Paterson
“I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?” ThinkingYearsSaidFoundBornImaginationRoomsSecretCrazyKeysYears AgoTreasureFiftyPocketsTragicBuriedLockedOld FashionedAuntDrawersDressersBuried Treasure Author:Kelley Armstrong
“Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.” YearsTwoImaginationFiveThousandYears AgoCome UpBunchFollowersThousand YearsSolemn Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.” PeopleYearsHumansWellsTwoCountryReasonEyeSufferingBeliefImaginationSpaceAnimalNumbersAcceptingHundredYears AgoNuclearFlightAgonyFanaticsFusionStaggeringCloningSpace FlightAnimal SufferingNuclear Fusion Author:Chris Bohjalian
“We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?” YearsHumansMightScienceUniverseGivenSocialCommunityImaginationMillionsProgressSocietyCenturyThousandYears AgoIntelligentMereBillionsThousand YearsTechnologicalHuman SocietySocial ProgressIntelligent Life Author:Paul Davies