And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Jacob Bronowski
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  1. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. - John Keats

  2. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real. - William K. Mahony

  4. Shadows only come to life in our imaginations. Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. Truth is a matter of the imagination. - Unknown

More Quotes By Jacob Bronowski
  1. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by...

  2. Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

  3. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  4. Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

  5. We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

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