#limits

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#collaborators #creation #did #duty #exist

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#defined #going #impossible #into #limits

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make. ↗

— George Clooney

#interest #limits #make #pushing #real

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#certain #condemns #definite #justifies #law

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. ↗

— Jim Costa

#exploration #gas #limits #long #natural

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#enough #ever #guess #i #life

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#existence #experience #facts #human #human world

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#cases #depend #easier #follow #harder

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#confidentiality #essential #information #intelligence #limits