impossibility quotes

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

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.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

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