impossibility

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.