It was Arthur C. Clark --

"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic."

On 7/30/07, Jim <arizona.anorak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've also read in several of Robert Heinlein's novels where one of the
> characters says magic is just knowledge I don't have yet.  I believe I
> might have seen that a time or two in one of Spider Robinson's
> Callahan's Place stories.
>
> Alex Dean wrote:
> > Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> >> Wasn't it Carol Sagan who said any society that that is sufficiently
> >> technologically advanced comes to a point where their ceases to be a
> >> difference between sciences and magic.
> >
> > Carl Sagan?  ;)
> >
> > I think it was Arthur C. Clarke.
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