Monday 17 May 2010

Question for May 17, 2010

The first one reads, "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 probably wrong."

The second one reads, "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

What is the third?

3 comments:

Nikhil said...

These are Arthur Clarke's laws. I think the third one is something like "A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".

Dev said...

My guess is these are some Feynman laws for research. I don;t know the third.

The Answer said...

These are Arthur C. Clarke's laws of prediction. The third one is the most famous of all: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Congrats to Nikhil for the correct answer.