克拉克基本定律

克拉克基本定律（英語：Clarke's three laws）是英国著名科幻作家亚瑟·查理斯·克拉克积累有关科学文化方面的经验提出的。^[1]

• 定律一：如果一个年高德劭的杰出科学家说，某件事情是可能的，那他几乎就是正确的；但如果他说，某件事情是不可能的，那他很可能是错误的；
• 定律二：要发现某件事情是否可能的界限，唯一的途径是跨越这个界限，从可能跑到不可能中去；
• 定律三：在任何一项足够先进的技术和魔法之间，我们无法做出区分。

參考文獻

维基语录上的阿瑟·克拉克语录

1. 1917-2008., Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles),. Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination. Profiles of the future : an inquiry into the limits of the possible Rev. ed. New York: Popular Library. 1977, ©1973. ISBN 0445040610. OCLC 4368176. When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. [...] But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. [...] The French edition of this book rather surprised me by calling this Clarke's Second Law. I accept the label, and have also formulated a Third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.  请检查|date=中的日期值 (帮助) 引文格式1维护：冗余文本 (link)

外部連結

• The origins of the Three Laws
• (lists some of the corollaries)
• "A Gadget Too Far" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） at Infinity Plus
• Corollary in "Freefall" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）