Albert Einstein said that imagination is the “highest form of research.” We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use of this gift. Australian animal pathologist William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1908-2006), said: “Facts and ideas are dead in themselves. It is the imagination that gives them [ Read more … ]
imagination
When you don’t fit in it means you’re creating something bigger than the norm.
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” ~ James Baldwin (1924-1987) Frank Zappa said, Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Let’s make places where the oddballs fit. And change the world.
Ordinary world versus a world that honors imagination
We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use of that gift.
We need schools for the imagination.
Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” That’s a great quote, so why don’t we have schools of the imagination rather than schools where we learn [ Read more … ]
The role of imagination is to awaken.
Imagination allows us to break through habitual ways of perception and patterns of behavior. It lets us see the world as if it could be otherwise. Our imaginations offer us space. When you open your imagination–when you see beyond what you currently know–that feeling of spaciousness will feed you. Your world is now bigger. You [ Read more … ]