The Impossible Takes a Little Longer
Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)
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KISWAHILI
“Jambo gumu ni lile linaloweza kufanywa mara moja: jambo lisilowezekana ni lile linalochukua muda mrefu kidogo.”
- Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), mchunguzi wa Norway na mwanasayansi; mpokeaji wa Tuzo ya Nobel ya Amani mwaka wa 1922 kwa kazi yake ya misaada ya kibinadamu na wakimbizi katika Vita vya Kwanza vya Dunia.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“The difficult is that which can be done at once: the impossible is that which takes a little longer.”
- Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer and scientist; the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1922 for his relief work in World War I.
Asante na tutaonana tena (Thank you and may we see each other again),
Mmerikani
Chanzo (source): Nansen, Fridtjof. Excerpt from the “Verbatim Record of the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations, Eighteenth Plenary Meeting” on 26 September 1925. In The New Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, page 583. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2021. Kindle edition.