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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.
While discussing the ship itself, the Doctor asks his companion if she knows Clarke's Law, which she then recites: "Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Doctor replies that the reverse is true and Ace voices this, working through the inverse, "any advanced form of magic is indistinguishable from technology."
Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality: the death rate is the sum of an age-independent component and an age-dependent component. Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Gossen's laws are three laws in economics relating to utility and value, formulated by Hermann Heinrich Gossen.
Clarke died in Colombo on 19 March 2008, at the age of 90. [32] [64] [65] [66] His aide described the cause as respiratory complications and heart failure stemming from post-polio syndrome. [67] Just hours before Clarke's death, a major gamma-ray burst (GRB) reached Earth.
Behold, below we've gathered 38 of the best Dumbledore quotes about life, love, friendship, Muggles, and, of course, magic. Related: 'Harry Potter' Actor Michael Gambon Dead at 82. Dumbledore ...
The book ends with a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: "Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magyk," hinting that the series is set in the far future. [18] This also hinted at by a dialogue between Lucy Gringe and Wolf Boy in Syren about the Red Tube. Wolf Boy says he has heard stories that people used to travel to the Moon ...
Short Moon Quotes "Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full." —K. Tolnoe "Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power." —Ursula K. Le Guin
This episode illustrates Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [2] Production