Impossibilities!

It Can Not be Done:

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899.

It will be years, not in my time, before a woman will become Prime Minister. - Margaret Thatcher, future Prime Minister, October 26th, 1969.

That virus is a pussycat. - Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988.

Man will not fly for 50 years.
- Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, to brother Orville, after a disappointing flying experiment, 1901 (their first successful flight was in 1903).

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.
- Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880.

That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.
Scientific American, Jan. 2 edition, 1909.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
- Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1895.

There will never be a bigger plane built.
- A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.

Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1939.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
- Albert Einstein, 1932.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." - Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916.

It's a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?
- Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. President, after a demonstration of Alexander Bell's telephone, 1876.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
- Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

Very interesting Whittle, my boy, but it will never work.
- Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said 'you can't do this'.
- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

The most critical point here is that each of the people who made the claims of improbability were the most knowledgeable, respected men in their fields. These are the people who had it all together. When they talked, people listened. If Albert Einstein tells you something can't be done, it is with finality that you naturally except it as truth. The theme here is that success came from ignoring the naysayers. In some of the cases that I've listed, the people were actually held back by their own admission. In other cases, people saw it done, tried it, and still didn't see the worth! What I'm really getting at here, is that in life, and especially with the things of God, you CAN NOT allow the things that are standard to define and determine what is possible and what will be. You cannot allow circumstance, state of mind, a belief system, or lack of belief to get in the way. If you have a vision, a dream, or a direction from God, you must throw logic out the window in its entirety. It is because God's thoughts and ways are higher than our thoughts and ways, that there is no logic behind trying to determine and measure that which God will make of and for your life. You must let go of human belief. Human belief is not good enough for what God has planned.