I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more important than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. (Robert Fulghum)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. (Carl Sagan)
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein)
The motto of our high school graduating class was a quote from Henry David Thoreau: If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
As you sit there reading this on your computer or tablet or smart phone, think for a moment of all the changes you’ve seen in your lifetime, no matter how old you might be. Now think of your mother or father and all the changes they saw in theirs. Now your grandparents — and in your imagination, bring them forward to today, and see the absolute astonishment as they behold the world you live in! Things they couldn’t have conceived of are commonplace to you.
Now think of all the things for which you long, those things you dream of, the things that the world desperately needs. Peace. Cures for horrible disease. An end to poverty. The discovery of different worlds, different galaxies, different forms of life. Love, whether personal or transcendent. Or maybe just flying cars! (I think those might already exist.) One of the things that has always fascinated me is the physics of telepathy — imagine the research that is already being done in that field, and what kind of application possibilities might emerge in everything from healing to spying!
It’s all possible! Things are changing so fast. What seemed wildly improbable yesterday is reality today. Allow yourself to imagine: what kind of “castles in the air” have you built, and what foundations might you build under them?
Imagine . . .