Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: Imagine what would happen if the nations of the world spent as much on development as on building the machines of war. Imagine a world where every human being would live in freedom and dignity. Imagine a world in which we would shed the same tears when a child dies in Darfur or Vancouver. Imagine a world where we would settle our differences through diplomacy and dialogue and not through bombs or bullets. Imagine if the only nuclear weapons remaining were the relics in our museums. Imagine the legacy we could leave to our children.
Imagine that such a world is within our grasp.
“To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.”
“Victory is within our ready grasp…We are in reach of a famous victory”
"Abbott's 'famous victory' remark … was it gospel or not?" http://www.theage.com.au/national/abbotts-famous-victory-remark--was-it-gospel-or-not-20100623-ywq0.html in The Age, June 23, 2010.
2010
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 213.
“The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.”
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 8 "Of the Analytical Engine"
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
“Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.”
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
Variant: The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62
