But an overactive imagination.

I thought it most imaginative, putting the dead to work, you might say.

Very thoughtful of him.

Oh, it fires the imagination!

I have a good imagination.

It's just unbelievable what the potential is to take advantage of solar energy there, and I'm really excited to talk more about finding ways we can help with that.

If you think so, you have a great imagination.

And yet our buildings are pretty much limited by the techniques and wonders that have been part of them.

But the central agent is really that piece called the imagination.

Photography threatens fantasy.

They're highly imaginative.

You're imagining things

Yeah, in your flipping imagination. You want to be careful, you know.

Away with the monstrosity of young people's imagination.

Stretch the envelope.

But it will also lay waste to imagination.

Jay Walker's library of human imagination

Use a little imagination. It's not hard.

They are instead the products of downstream imagination leading to hard work, during which mathematical reasoning may or may not prove to be relevant.

Most of the things you worry about never happen!

BENEDICT Well, it has both honesty and imagination.

Charlotte, that's very imaginative.

I have a global vision for vision.

This story is about taking imagination seriously.

Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show and tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage.

Janet Echelman Taking imagination seriously

She had a vivid imagination.

That's quite an imagination you have, mr. Cousins. I'll give you that.

You are highly imaginative, nothing more than that.

I want to start my talk today with two observations about the human species.

Think about it. It's extraordinarily powerful.

I wanted to show you a little bit about the culture of it, too the magic of it.

I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept.

This was an investment opportunity for someone that excited the imagination of people.

Technology is an instrument that allowed me to manifest my visions in high definition, live, on stage.

And one must admire the imagination of John Locke.

So I use my imagination as my full time job.

Now, let your imagination go upward into space.

Now great imagination, thank you very much.

But let us use our imagination.

He's working smartly, a guy with imagination.

That doesn't surprise me. He doesn't have much imagination.

All of imagination everything that we think, we feel, we sense comes through the human brain.

Basic science is critical to the ability to understand both the phenomena and the efforts to affect the phenomena.

Anyway, it was a time when I was mainly interested in collecting imaginary stories.