James Geary Quotes

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

What I can't create I don't understand

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.