The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.