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Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, the great Anatolian ph... World Values Survey Best of History Web Sites BBC Languages – Free online lessons to learn and study with Mona Eltahawy Aspen Ideas Festival Clarke's three laws Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. They are: 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.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Origins[edit] Clarke's First Law was proposed by Arthur C. The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay. The Third Law is the best known and most widely cited, and appears in Clarke's 1973 revision of "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination". A fourth law has been added to the canon, despite Sir Arthur Clarke's declared intention of not going one better than Sir Isaac Newton. Snowclones and variations of the third law[edit] and its contrapositive: See also[edit] References[edit]

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Institute for Advanced Studies In Culture: Publications - The Hedgehog Review Current Issue Summer 2017 (19.2) The accelerating urbanization of the world can be viewed as either the hope or the bane of our global future. Yet at a time when more than half of the world’s population inhabits cities and so much thought and study have been devoted to the challenges and possibilities of urban life, surprisingly little attention is paid to the crucial purpose and meaning of cities. Recovering the cultural dimension in thinking about the future of our cities may be the best way to make them the solution and not the problem. Table of Contents | Order Spring 2017 (19.1) To capture some sense of the self at this post-modern moment, we examine the key features of our deeper cultural code. Table of Contents | Order Fall 2016 (18.3) Science has been central to the rise of the modern world. Table of Contents | Order From our Recent Issues From Spring 2017 (19.1) The Devil We Know by Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig The devil just isn’t what he used to be. From Fall 2016 (18.3) Science Anxiety Blog

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