Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's read more

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to read more

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's read more

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.