Dennis Gabor Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

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

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

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.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Doubt is the father of invention.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Imagining what the possibilities are versus what is right in front of me has been the second biggest factor in defining my career.

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.

There are a few chances in life where you get to take a different road. I think it's important to stay creative, look at the moment, and look at the future.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.