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• When the elderly and distinguished scientists rally round the idea, and proclaim it as a major scientific breakthrough, it will turn out to be wrong after all.
• When elderly and distinguished scientists denounce a new idea, it will turn out to be right.
• 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....
• 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...
• 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 Law of Revolutionary Ideas Every revolutionary idea - in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever - evokes three stages of reaction.
  They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1) "It is completely impossible -- don't waste my time....
• and in environmental news, scientists have announced that Springfield's air is now only dangerous to children and the elderly.
  -- Kent Brockman, "Treehouse of Horror III...
• Step right up, folks! We'll answer the question that's been plaguing scientists for age
  Can hamsters fly planes? -- Bart's science project, "The Simpso...
• Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing windows.
  -- Isaac Asimov...