克拉克基本定律
經驗定律
克拉克基本定律（英語：Clarke's three laws）是英國著名科幻作家亞瑟·查理斯·克拉克積累有關科學文化方面的經驗提出的。[1]
- 定律一：如果一個年高德劭的傑出科學家說，某件事情是可能的，那他幾乎就是正確的；但如果他說，某件事情是不可能的，那他很可能是錯誤的；
- 定律二：要發現某件事情是否可能的界限，唯一的途徑是跨越這個界限，從可能跑到不可能中去；
- 定律三：在任何一項足夠先進的技術和魔法之間，我們無法做出區分。
參考文獻
- ^ 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.
外部連結
- The origins of the Three Laws[失效連結]
- "What's Your Law?" (lists some of the corollaries)
- "A Gadget Too Far" （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館） at Infinity Plus
- Corollary in "Freefall" （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）