Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Variant: Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Alexander Calder (1898–1976) American artist
Question, Léger once called you a realist. How do you feel about this?
1950s - 1960s, interview with Alexander Calder', (1962)
“My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Source: Lost Girls, libro 3: Grande y terrible
“The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.”
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
Quoted in book prefaces
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
As quoted in C. F. Main & Peter J. Seng, Poems (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1973), p. 3
