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(born 1917) ' and ' Verified "Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!" Source: Electronic Tutors I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Source: 1984: Spring (1984) Clarke's Three Laws 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. Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's First Law" The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's Second Law" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Source: Profiles of the Future (revised edition 1973); The statement is often referred to as "Clarke's Third Law" Attributed "My favourite definition of 'Intellectual' is: 'Person whose education surpasses their intelligence.'" Note: Clarke may not have been first to say this. It is not the same in English original. "The intelligence of the planet is constant, and the population is growing." "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods" /article "I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." See: list of people by name
Verified "Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!" Source: Electronic Tutors I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Source: 1984: Spring (1984) Clarke's Three Laws 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. Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's First Law" The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's Second Law" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Source: Profiles of the Future (revised edition 1973); The statement is often referred to as "Clarke's Third Law" Attributed "My favourite definition of 'Intellectual' is: 'Person whose education surpasses their intelligence.'" Note: Clarke may not have been first to say this. It is not the same in English original. "The intelligence of the planet is constant, and the population is growing." "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods" /article "I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." See: list of people by name