8 Quotes Tagged: impossibility

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Impossibility, like wine
Exhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.

Dreams taught me never to doubt myself, by letting me do the impossible.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.