We observe facts and store them up; imagination broods upon these memories, and by the aid of reason tries to discern their interdependence.
John Tyndall
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Lecture addressed to teachers at the South Kensington Museum, April 30, 1861; reprinted in Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science (1870), p. 4; Complete public-domain sentence. Full reprinted lecture passage read about testing imaginative hypotheses through experiment. Explicitly
- Lecture addressed to teachers at the South Kensington Museum, April 30, 1861; reprinted in Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science (1870), …
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