We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the advancement of science in overcoming challenges previously deemed insurmountable.
Christopher Reeve's quote reflects the evolving mindset of the scientific community towards innovation and discovery. He suggests that terms like 'impossible' or 'unsolvable' are outdated in an era where science is rapidly progressing, allowing for the possibility of not just treating but completely eradicating diseases and injuries. This perspective inspires hope for a future where solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems are within reach.
In practice
During a keynote speech at a medical conference, one might use this quote to inspire researchers.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
Life ... is a relationship between molecules.
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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