Arthur C. Clarke

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Also known as Clarke's Third Law.

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Clarke's Third Law on UFOs." Science Magazine, 19 Jan. 1968.

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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Sentinel of Eternity." Ten Story Fantasy. Avon Periodicals, 1951.

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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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Also known as Clarke's Second Law

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination." Profiles of the Future. Gollancz, 1962.

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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.

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Also known as Clarke's First Law.

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination." Profiles of the Future. Gollancz, 1962.

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

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Clarke, Arthur C. Quoted in "Hands Up for the Gaia Hypothesis." Written by James E. Lovelock. Nature Journal, 8 Mar. 1990.

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