Imagination has artistic imagination and scientific imagination.

想象分为文艺想象与科学想象；

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The scientific imagination is an enormous drive for promoting scientific invention and technological innovation.

科学想象是推动科学发明与技术创新的巨大力量。

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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and drawings show him to have had a scientific imagination and technological ingenuity well ahead of his time.

列奥纳多·达芬奇的笔记和画表明他具有颇为超前的科学想像力和独创技巧。

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This is the time when people dream, and dreams have had a grip on the scientific imagination since the days of Freud, and on the popular imagination at least since biblical times.

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For more than a century, panspermia has fallen into the large category of scientific ideas that capture the imagination but are completely unverifiable.

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