“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”

― Mikhail Bakunin

  • quams69@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What about all of the things that were achieved by accident that were never viewed as either possible or impossible because people couldn’t envision them like penicillin or coca cola or beer or math

    Wtf does this quote even mean? It’s total nonsense, it’s not how ingenuity works at all