What Is Now Proved Was Once Only Imagined

 The Power 

 of Imagination 

 William Blake 

 What is now proved 

1972: Apollo 17 command module floating above the moon in 1972. Notice the similarity in shape and even the similarity in construction with the module (below) in the Méliès 1902 sci-fi animated film: A Trip to the Moon. 

 Was once 

 1902: Still from the Méliès 1902 sci-fi film: A Trip to the Moon. The command module that held the astronauts was inserted into a super-gun to send it to the moon.

 Only imagined 

See my related in-depth blogs about 
The Work of the Imagination
http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-work-of-imagination.html
and
The History of the Future
http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-history-of-future.html

What Is Knowledge?

What Is Knowledge?

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … 

The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

Einstein

What we can *know*

is confined

by our ability to imagine

realities 

in the universe

that can be translated 

into our narrow 

symbolic thought

Part of a draft of a letter by Galileo in which he described the power of his new telescope. In these drawings he noted what he observed when he first looked through the telescope at Jupiter and was able to see its four moons. 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galileo_manuscript.png