“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.R

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“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.”

Imagination is the determining factor that precedes invention, the creation of things. As Ada Lovelace pointed out to us, before conceiving, one must imagine. Hegel, a little earlier, had again noted the separation between two opposing worlds: the physical object and the mental object. Every idea is, potentially, a new object to be produced, a new object to be given reality. The correspondence between both images, the one imagined in the mind and the one finally achieved, is the key to the success of every invention. Matter and form, appearance and function. Aristotle, Michelangelo, Hegel… the list of names who have reflected on this subject is long.

In the act of creation, the mental object is placed first, to subsequently give this idea physicality and corporeality in the external world. Thus, achieving the culmination of the process of creation.

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