On 7/6/25 18:56, Alain D D Williams wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 06:14:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
According to the Doppler theory (I believe it was - this is from some
decades ago), if you would be travelling toward a set of traffic lights, at
the speed of light,
You could not reach the speed of light
Ah, yes, ... and man can never fly...
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AUTHOR: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
QUOTATION: You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that
never were; and I say “Why not?”
ATTRIBUTION: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Back to Methuselah, act I, Selected
Plays with Prefaces, vol. 2, p. 7 (1949). The serpent says these words
to Eve.
President John F. Kennedy quoted these words in his address to the Irish
Parliament, Dublin, June 28, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of
the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 537.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy used a similar quotation as a theme of his
1968 campaign for the presidential nomination: “Some men see things as
they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.”
Senator Edward M. Kennedy quoted these words of Robert Kennedy’s in his
eulogy for his brother in 1968.—The New York Times, June 9, 1968, p. 56.
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https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/respectfully-quoted/george-bernard-shaw-18561950-2/
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.” – French Proverb
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may
have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the
impossible to do that very thing.” – G. M. Trevelyan
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem
improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become
inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll
“It is either easy or impossible.” – Salvador Dali
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it
seems so.” – Sir Walter Scott
“We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to
ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.” – Francois Duc De la
Rochefoucauld
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” –
Robert A. Heinlein
“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” –
Anonymous
“No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at
least once a day.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it
impossible for anyone to accomplish.” – Marcus Aurelius
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible,
is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a
function of our beliefs about who we are.” – Anthony Robbins
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely
improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them
as impossible.” – Vince Lombardi
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own
thinking.” – Robert Schuller
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and
achieves the impossible.” – Anonymous
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” –
Miguel de Cervantes
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve:
the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they
fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles F.
Kettering
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the
Great
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
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- https://impossiblehq.com/25-impossible-quotes/
Note, with emphasis, the second of those quotes, in that last set of quotes.
And, remember - the breaking of the enigma code, was regarded as
impossible, and, without the trying to break the code, and, the actions
of Alan Turing and Joan Clark and their team, we would not have these
devices named electronic computers, but, computers would still be the
people who were the women in the movie "Hidden Figures". And, wasn't
what was achieved in that movie - launching a rocket into space, and,
later, travelling to the moon, all regarded as impossible?
Read all of the quotes above, and, consider...
And, remember, in the first series of Star Trek, they had talking
computers and other things that computers were able to accomplish, way
before humans got such achievements into practice.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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