Nelson Goodman Quotes

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

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