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- It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
- It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
- Christopher Reeve, Testimony to US House of Representative, 1999
- By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
- Italian Proverb
- Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
- Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Marion C. Garretty
- Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
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