L. Frank Baum Quotes

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

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

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.