Possible And Impossible Quotes
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.
G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott
"The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.
David Eddings (2010). “Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad”, p.53, Random House
1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.29, TAN Books
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.7, Harvard University Press
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.131, Princeton University Press