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March 19 (today) is the 16th anniversary of the death of great science-writer/inventor Arthur C. Clarke. Just maybe a good time to recount his “three laws”:
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.
....I can't help but also be reminded of another "Arthur".... philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's "3 stages of truth" (which used to appear at the head of this blog):
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
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