Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

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

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.