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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke or Azimov, can't remember which titan of SF said it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was Clarke - Azimov had other highly relevant quotes though, particularly the one on anti-intellectualism...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really? I was sure that was emperor Cleon the somethingth...

Open to correction, however

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope. It was Clarke.

Foundation turned science to religion which is essentially using Clarke's laws but drawn to it's extreme.

Essentially faith + magic = miracle ≈ science + religion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nice - thanks for chipping in!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's Clarke's Third Law.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I got curious and looked them up.

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.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that was Abraham Lincoln

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The vampire hunter?

Neat!