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British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future.[1] The laws are: One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions.[2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962);[3] however, they were not all published at the same time. Clarke's first law was proposed in the 1962 edition of the essay, as "Clarke's Law" in Profiles of the Future. The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay but its status as Clarke's second law was conferred by others. It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke's second law where the author proposed the third law in the 1973 revision of Profil

Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Axioms proposed by British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws , of which the third law – that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" – is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future. [ 1 ] The laws [ edit ] The laws are: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he i

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