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Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules