Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

• Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Magic

• Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Magic, Theatre

• 1. 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. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

• Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Magic, Advanced Technology

• I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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