Quotes About Possibility

You," said Stormgren, "have been reading too much science-fiction.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them.

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

Two possibility exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

When, taking all factors into account, anything can be proved to be impossible, that usually means that it will be done in some different manner and employing a new and unforeseen technique.

chronology protection conjecture?

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

It is more than possible; it is probable.

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

Kalau kausingkirkan semua yang mustahil, apa pun yang tersisa, betapapun mustahilnya, adalah kebenaran.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (p. 261).

Eliminato l'impossibile ció che resta, per improbabile che sia, deve essere la veritá

You see, the thing about dreams is that it's never really too late to make them come true.

Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it—after all, it made military sense—that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win

There will always be a door to the light.

Your mother would say about them: "If God wills it, even a broomstick can shoot like a gun.

The sky is the limit. Not even Kahnegi, Vendehbilt, or Rahknfelleh knew how far they would go.

I had discovered the miraculous possibility that art holds out to us: to be a part of the world and to be removed from the world at the same time.

At times it occurs to all of us that it is downright trivial for 2 and 2 to make 4…After all, we have all experienced at least a passing feeling, a longing for a far distant dreamland where 2 and 2 make whatever we wish them to make.

You can always make something out of nothing.

The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was coming up next. It was irresistible to click onto the next random selection. Even if it was something great, there was the possibility something greater still would flash up next.