Quotes About Possibility

Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.

Nevertheless, the Geroch-Hartle work does indicate the clear possibility that non-computability may have a genuine role in whatever quantum gravity theory finally emerges as being physically correct.

In view of the anomalous relation that consciousness has to the very physical notion of time, as was described at the beginning of this section, it seems to me to be at least possible that there is no such clear-cut 'time' at which a conscious event must occur.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there's only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.

there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happend

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened

child of Amber may walk among them, and such was my heritage. You may call them parallel worlds if you wish, alternate universes if you would, the products of a deranged mind if you care to. I call them shadows, as do all who possess the power to walk among them. We select a possibility and we walk until we reach it. So, in a sense, we create it.

positing infinity, the rest is easy

I spat sand so I would not choke when I laughed. Hell, we make our own what ifs. I had better things to do than what could have happened.

I always behave--I insist upon behaving, whatever I am told and whatever my own discouragements may be, as if love someday might be fulfilled, as if the Sovereign Good were possible

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

Throughout his career, he operated in the realm of the possible, taking the world as it was, not as he wished it to be, and he often inveighed against a dogmatic insistence upon perfection.

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. Without science, everything is a miracle. With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is. Religious belief in this case becomes less and less necessary, and also less and less relevant.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Nevertheless, all of these phenomena imply that, under the right conditions, not only can nothing become something, it is required to.

The first day of the rest of my life.

anything. He could end up with seven-to-ten