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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

—Isaac Asimov (1983)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

—Isaac Asimov
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

—John Dewey
Science does not know its debt to imagination.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.

—Albert Einstein
When I am ... completely myself, entirely alone ... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occassions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these come I know not nor can I force them ... Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them at the same time all together.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The [George W.] Bush administration has done more damage to our national identity than any administration before it... You can't have the rule of law when the vice president [Dick Cheney] claims laws don't apply to him. You can't have a nation of reason when the government elevates faith and politics over fact and science. And you can't have equal opportunity for a common good when the rules are rigged to solidify ever larger gains for those at the top. Bush has substituted our Enlightenment values with his own: crass materialism (go shopping to show your love of country), class privilege, anti-intellectualism, cronyism, religious zealotry and American exceptionalism.

—Robyn Blumner, Tribune Media Services
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

—Bertrand Russell
Progress entails thinking outside of the box to create fresh boxes
for the unimaginitive to think inside of.

—Alan Harris
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

—Albert Einstein
Modern science 'dissects' things, with a view to possessing and mastering them on their own level. Its aim is above all, technology.

—Titus Burckhardt
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

—Jules Henri Poincaré
Science is simply common sense at its best.

—Thomas Huxley
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

—John Maynard Keynes
Make no small plans, they have no magic to stir the soul.

—Daniel Burnham
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.”

—C. S. Lewis
The 7 modern sins: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, industry without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice.

—Canon Frederick Donaldson
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

—Charles Darwin
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

—Nigel Calder

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