Impossible

"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth?

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

When you heat a kettle of cold water, there is no particular moment when the water ceases to be cold and becomes hot, therefore it is impossible to make a cup of tea.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

You cannot not think of something.