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Arthur C Clarke
: 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.
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All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.
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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 then, after all, probably right.
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Impossible is nothing.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
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'Impossible' n'est pas français.
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The impossible is often the untried.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Clarke's Third Law doesn't work in reverse. Given that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," it does not follow that "any magical claim that anybody may make at any time is indistinguishable from a technological advance that well come some time in the future." ... There have admittedly been occasions when authoritative, pontificating skeptics have come away with egg on their faces, even within their own lifetimes. But there have been a far greater number of occasions when magical claims have never been vindicated. An apparent magical claim might eventually turn out to be true. In any age there are so many magical claims that are, or could be, made. They can't all be true; many are mutually contradictory; and we have no reason to suppose that, simply by the act of sitting down and dreaming up a magical claim, we shall make it come true in some future technology. Some things that would surprise us today will come true in the future. But lots and lots of things that would surprise us today will not come true ever.
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