The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“A Kind of Artistry” p. 175 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity.”
Sean Russell (1952) author
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 33 (p. 475)
“Only the impossible is worth the effort.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
The Powerbook (2000)
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Source: Autumn Leaves
““There’s something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch.”
“I’m sure there is. In fact there is everything else.””
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 47 (p. 893)
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
