All RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Quotes about “Imagination”

“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”
“I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax”
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.”
“When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.”
“The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?”
“The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.”
“We are not to tell nature what sheâ€™s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.”
“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.”
“Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.”
“The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.”
“As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.”
“But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
“What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.”

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