“Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.”

Source: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 9, Illusions Of Pattens And Patterns Of Illusions, p. 170-171

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American physicist, author and screenwriter 1954

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