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• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's First Law...
• Clarke's First Law When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong....
• But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  -- Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) -- Profiles of the Future (1962...
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
  -- Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) -- Profiles of the Future (1962...
• When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion--the distinguished but elderly scientists are the
  after all, probably right....
• impossible. Clarke's Second Law
• magic 1. adj. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
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• In matters of belief, he who is absolutely sure he is right is almost certainly dead wrong.
  -- Kelvin Throop...
• Talent borrows, but genius steals. -- Arthur C. Clarke