Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

American Writer

Jim Carrey

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Canadian Comedian

Paulo Coelho

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Brazilian Novelist

Joyce Meyer

It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

American Author

Stephen Hawking

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

English Physicist

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

French Author

Venus Williams

In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.

American Tennis Player

Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Russian Novelist

Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Russian Dramatist

Francis Bacon

English Philosopher

Used to state something cannot happen due to laws of nature or limitations.

Literal Impossibility

Often used to emphasize the difficulty of a task, not always literal.

Hyperbolic Expression

Indicates that effort will not change the outcome, suggesting giving up.

Emphasize Futility

Used to describe someone who is very hard to please or deal with.

Describing Behavior

Can be used in a less literal sense to describe challenging social situations.

Figurative Use

In academics, highlights problems with no apparent solution.

Academic Challenges

In media, 'impossible' may refer to missions or goals set to test a character's resolve.

Cultural References

 ways from dead in fact it's almost impossible a killer redwood you can burn them like they have here if they burnt this out trying to get rid of it you cut them down burn them 140 years ago throw everything in the world and you can't kill it but nobody recognized that the tree lives on because when you threaten its life from

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 It says that traveling from any location to any other location should take an infinite amount of time. In other words, it says that all motion is impossible. This conclusion is clearly absurd, but where is the flaw in the logic? To resolve the paradox, it helps to turn the story into a math problem.

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 Some are small and unimportant, but others have a larger impact on our lives. For example, which politician should I vote for? Should I try the latest diet craze? Or will email make me a millionaire? We're bombarded with so many decisions that it's impossible to make a perfect choice every time.

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 so it's impossible to start and end a Hamiltonian path on opposite corners. It seems like you're out of luck, unless you look at the rules carefully and notice an important exception. It's true that once you activate the switch in a contaminated room, it's destroyed and you can never go back.

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 of prime numbers. So, to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of finding infinite beds for infinite buses of infinite weary travelers, the night manager assigns every current guest to the first prime number, 2, raised to the power of their current room number.

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 Your intuition tells you it's impossible. Do the math and you'll see it's right. That's what math is for. It's true that science, all types of science, only makes sense because it makes us better understand this beautiful world we live in. And in doing that,

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 while Type 2 involves briefer, less extreme periods of elation interspersed with long periods of depression. For someone seesawing between emotional states, it can feel impossible to find the balance necessary to lead a healthy life.

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 Up here on land, they're impossibly ungainly and out of place. But for these female elephant seals there's still one part of their life where they're totally bound to the land. They come here to give birth.

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 continued that I'm convinced that it's almost impossible almost as a matter of fact it was he was not the only world champion thinking similarly about

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 To see a tiger hunting boar is extremely rare. To capture it on camera is virtually impossible.

Impossible

Literal Impossibility

Hyperbolic Expression

Emphasize Futility

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