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Clarke said it's unlikely for a distinguished but elderly scientist to accurately predict what's unlikely. Clarke was a distinguished but elderly scientist. T
by mLuby 7y ago
Clarke said it's unlikely for a distinguished but elderly scientist to accurately predict what's unlikely.
Clarke was a distinguished but elderly scientist.
Therefore it's unlikely that Clarke accurately predicted what's unlikely?
- tempestn 7y agoClarke stated that distinguished, elderly scientists claiming something is impossible are "very probably" wrong, not that it's impossible for them to be right. (Also he was more of a science fiction writer than a scientist himself, although it would probably be fair to loosely call him a scientist as well.)
- bostonpete 7y agoHe also wasn't elderly when he wrote the first law in 1962.
- mLuby 7y agoGood point, edited.