{"id":293,"date":"2007-10-08T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/08\/293\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:12:00","slug":"293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/08\/293\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quotes from a science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><strong>Clarke&#8217;s Three Laws<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarke&#8217;s First Law:<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination&#8221; in Profiles of the Future (1962) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarke&#8217;s Second Law:<\/strong> The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination&#8221; in Profiles of the Future (1962)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarke&#8217;s Third Law:<\/strong> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. <\/p>\n<p>Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quotes from a science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke&#8217;s Three Laws Clarke&#8217;s First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/08\/293\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}