Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
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Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
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In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
