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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 three laws, formulated by Arthur C. Clarke. Several corollaries to these laws have also been proposed. First law: 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.
Clarke's three laws, three adages from British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's extensive writings about the future; Three Laws of Robotics, a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov
This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. ... Clarke's three laws; Niven's laws; Sturgeon's law; Three Laws of Robotics (Isaac Asimov's fictional set ...
The film Bicentennial Man (1999) features Robin Williams as the Three Laws robot NDR-114 (the serial number is partially a reference to Stanley Kubrick's signature numeral). Williams recites the Three Laws to his employers, the Martin family, aided by a holographic projection. The film only loosely follows the original story.
(2000), 31). (Cf. Clarke's First Law, from Profiles of the Future – see Wikipedia article, Clarke's Three Laws: "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.")
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Keating has hosted the Clarke Center Into the Impossible podcast since 2016. [2] It takes its name from the second of Clarke's three laws : "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible ."