Clarke’s Third Law is probably the best known and most widely cited of the three and states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Just as an aside the others 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.
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.
by AKACroatalin December 17, 2016
In a similar vein to Godwin's Law, Clarke's Law dictates that somehow, someway, pedophiles will inevitably be brought up in an online argument. Often a form of simultaneously deflecting and projecting.
Thomas: Here is a picture of me holding my wife in bed.
Mavis: Ewww, she looks like a baby this is so odddddd...
Eric: Clarke's Law, you lose
Mavis: Ewww, she looks like a baby this is so odddddd...
Eric: Clarke's Law, you lose
by BangarangTwist June 01, 2025