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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

John Dewey
Science, Imagination, Audacity
William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.212, University of Illinois Press

...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

John Dewey
Writing, Practice, Imagination

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

John Dewey
Appreciation, Imagination, Engagement
John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.226, Courier Corporation

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

John Dewey
Past, History, Imagination
John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.

John Dewey
Play, Differences, Imagination
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.240, Sheba Blake Publishing

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

John Dewey
Reflection, Ideas, Imagination
John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.87, 谷月社

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey
Teaching, Responsibility, Imagination
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

John Dewey
Imagination, Demand, Occupation
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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