Musings of a Babylon Lurker » imagination http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:32:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Science and imagination http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/04/06/science-and-imagination/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/04/06/science-and-imagination/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:51:39 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=253 I just stumbled over an article in the “Bad Astronomy” blog, a reply to someone claiming that science is devoid of imagination.

I particularly like the “boiled down” version of the reply :

“Without imagination, science is a dictionary”

since without imagination science (and technology would never have brought us anywhere, certainly we would not be discussing the topic on the Internet.

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