Isaac Newton
(1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
“The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
Linus Pauling
(1901–1994) American scientist
Lecture at Yale University, "Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future." (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
1940s-1960s
Context: Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
Lev Landau
(1908–1968) Soviet physicist
reported by Lance Dixon http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/03/guest-post-lance-dixon-on-calculating-amplitudes/
William Blake
(1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(1755–1826) French lawyer, politician and writer
Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
