(January 2, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [quote='polymath257' pid='2133100' dateline='1672674099']Very neatly expressed in Clarke’s First Law:
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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.
Boru
Thank you for this quote; it obviates any reservations that I had in viewing Clarke as a futurist crank, perhaps the High Priest of all of them.