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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.
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Attributed to Bakunin in The Explorers (1996) by Paolo Novaresio ISBN 1-55670-495-X

 

Mikhail Bakunin

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