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The saying you mention is the third of Clarke's Three Laws. Here are all three ... Phoning home?

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." -Arthur C. Clarke

The Mathematics of God "And God said, let there be numbers, and there were numbers; odd and even created he them, and he said unto them, be fruitful and multiply; and he commanded them to keep the laws of induction." -Edward Nelson (Department of Mathematics, Princeton)

New Element Discovered The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by University physicists here. The element, tentatively named administratium (Ad), has no protons or electrons, which means that it has atomic number 0 and falls outside the natural patterns exhibited by other...

Homo blennus "There is nothing in the world that can give a man a sense of the infinite like human stupidity." -Unknown

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. Dick

The Dark Sucker Theory For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark...

I think that depends. Does the universe have consciousness?

Who are you making this justification to - yourself or others?

Message to the Moon About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in...

According to Galileo it's the only way to understand it. :smile:

Yes, two. First thought - according to The Expanded Quotable Einstein the quote/saying When the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts is often attributed to Einstein but is probably not by Einstein. Second thought - this quote by Einstein: The truth of a theory can never be proven...