76 Possibility Quotes

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.

All things lie dark in possibility.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, 'We've just begun.'

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

'Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world- making the most of one's best. '

With the power of soul anything is possible.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling-place?' 'In the dreams of the Impotent,' comes the answer.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance- the idea that anything is possible.

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. (Ch. 6)

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?

Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe

However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

Nothing is impossible, to him who will try.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Elle est positivement apparentee avec l'infini. Sans elle, toutes les facultes, si solides ou si aiguisees qu'elles soient, sont comme si elles n'etaient pas, tandis que la faiblesse de quelques facultes secondaires, excitees par une imagination vigoureuse, est un malheur secondaire. Aucune ne peut se passer d'elle, et elle peut suppleer quelques-unes. Souvent ce que celles-ci cherchent et ne trouvent qu'apres les essais successifs de plusieurs methodes non adaptees a la nature des choses, fierement et simplement elle le devine. Enfin elle joue un role puissant meme dans la morale; car, permettez-moi d'aller jusque-la, qu'est-ce que la vertu sans imagination?

nothing except the impossible shall occur

Friends, a man and a woman. It was possible

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.

'My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.'

Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

'Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.'

Es gibt noch ein anderes, besseres Leben.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

God...created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

'Impossible' n'est pas francais.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.'

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Go then; there are other worlds than these.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

An amalgamation of cultures is taking place. I see it as proof that something is happening, something is being born, that we are in a phase when one age is succeeding another, when everything is possible. Yes, everything is possible, because our civilization does not have its own unified style, its own spirit, its own aesthetic.

?Si se puede!