The first two are:

1.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.

2.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke, the famed sci-fi author who penned these laws, is probably best known for co-authoring the screenplay to 2001: A Space Odyssee

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[–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are also two variations on the third law that I like. Not sure who coined them.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

And for those who love crunchy magic systems:

Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.

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