Quotes About Possibility

The world of sense, if it is limited, lies necessarily within the infinite void. If we ignore this, and with it, space in general, as an a priori condition of the possibility of phenomena, the whole world of sense vanishes, which alone forms the object of our enquiry.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

You just seem to have folded up the future. It is folded up.

Now that the doors of possibility had magically opened one after the other, Ludens realised how much comfort he had derived from uncertainty.

All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.

we have futures. That means we can make things true…

Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

A great many things are possible." And to himself he added: But not practical.

No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

That's right, but it's not a mathematical proposition. It's a sociological observation and there is always the possibility of exceptions to such observations. - Dr. Mandamus to Dr. Kelden Amadiro

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. After all, if we may prove accurate in our predictions, we may prove inaccurate as well, sometimes ludicrously so.

Quieres ver el libro que traigo? -dijo Harlan. - ¿Es posible que lleves esos libros encima? - ¿Por qué no? El viaje en la cabina lleva bastante tiempo. No hay ninguna necesidad de desperdiciarlo.

I never thought that, in the sense of believing it. It is merely an alternative to be considered.

Hardin groaned in spirit. The Board seemed to suffer violently from Encyclopedia on the brain. He said icily: 'Has it ever occurred to this Board that it is barely possible that Terminus may have interests other than the Encyclopedia?' Pirenne replied: 'I do not conceive, Hardin, that the Foundation can have any interest other than the Encyclopedia.' 'I didn't say the Foundation; I said Terminus.

Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.

It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren't necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Of course you can never say zero possibility or 100 per cent possibility in football, because you never know what will happen because football changes so rapidly.

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.