 | Hermann Simon - 2000 - 384 pages
...was jedermann für ausgemacht hält, verdient oft am meisten untersucht zu werden. Arthur C. Clarke When a distinguished but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Charles P. Snow Wenn die Naturwissenschaftler die Zukunft im Blut haben, dann reagiert die überkommene... | |
 | Gillian Ragsdell, Jennifer Wilby - Business & Economics - 2001 - 314 pages
...impossibilities", while Arthur Clarke Technological Forecasting and Assessment Tools 163 (1962) observes: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong". For the decision maker a useful analogy is the task of steering a boat in a turbulent stream. There... | |
 | David Hatcher Childress, Bill Clendenon - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 318 pages
...Bahnson) to do antigravity R. & D. AFTERWORD by David Hatcher Childress Arthur C. Clarke's Laws: 1) When a distinguished, but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2) The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to look beyond them into the impossible.... | |
 | Claude C. Albritton - Science - 2002 - 256 pages
...of geological ages into any exact number of years is beyond our CHAPTER SIXTEEN Radiometric Dating When a distinguished but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. A. c. CLARKE'S FIRST LAW In 1895, the year Perry began his attack on Kelvin's calculations, \Vilhelm... | |
 | Robert Aunger - Science - 2002 - 404 pages
...of Technology" of Arthur C. Clarke, the science-fiction writer and inventor: "When a scientist says something is possible, he is almost certainly right....something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." So the apparent advantage of focusing on behavior, if indeed it exists, is only likely to remain an... | |
 | Wil McCarthy - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 254 pages
...visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke formalized three "laws" of technological development: • First Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." • Second Law: "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way... | |
 | Arthur Bloch - Humor - 2003 - 232 pages
...break even. 3. Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game. Clarke's First Law When a distinguished but elderly scientist states...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's Second Law The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the... | |
 | Anil Aggarwal - Education - 2003 - 489 pages
...THE FUTURE AND STUDENTS AS CUSTOMERS Arthur C. Clarke's First Law stated that "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is possible,...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Consider the following megatrends in Table 3 that may help us predict the future. Table 3: Key Megatrends... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 552 pages
...• What counts in science is to be not so much the first as the last. — Erwin Chargaff • When a scientist states that something is possible, he is...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. — Arthur C. Clarke • A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted;... | |
 | David Cowan - Health & Fitness - 2003 - 286 pages
...Gilmerton. CHAPTER EIGHT The Final Circuit Cup-Mark Maps Across Scotland and Northern England 'When a scientist states that something is possible, he is...something is impossible, he is very probably wrong '. ARTHUR C. CLARK The next circuit once again behaves in a very similar manner to the previous one.... | |
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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. 
