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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limi

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

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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. – Thomas Huxley

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The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley

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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as David. But I wouldnt really want to work with those people, you know? – Michael C. Hall

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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. – Sean Parker

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