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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