After a five year voyage, the Juno space probe has just arrived, is now successful in going into orbit around Jupiter, our solar system's biggest planet. Amazing to ponder. Five years ago, a group of experts thought it possible that this "machine" would make the trip. They designed, using all the technical information at hand, and sent it off.
A site named The Heart of Innovation published 50 quotes on possibilities--FIFTY! Some are shared below. Click on the site when you can to read other good quotes.
"Sometimes I've believed as
many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll
"The Wright brother flew
right through the smoke screen of impossibility." - Charles Kettering
"In order to attain the
impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes
"The secret of life is to
have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring
everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most
important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do." -
Henry Moore
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I've been thinking about this since I heard Juno was close, about those things we do in our "slices of life" that we may originally have thought as impossible. Yet, because we're curious, or motivated, even desperate, we DO. And, as a "now former" teacher and a grandmother, I wonder about messages sent about doing impossible things to students, my children and grandchildren. Have I done enough "showing" instead of "telling"?