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• When the elderly and distinguished scientists rally round the idea, and proclaim it as a major scientific breakthrough, it will turn out to be wrong after all.
• 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 the
  after all, probably right....
• Clarke's First Law When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong....
• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's First Law...
• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
  When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong....
• When an idea is being pushed because it is "exciting," "new," or "innovative", beware.
  An exciting, new, innovative idea can also be foolish....
• If nuclear, therefore it must be bad; Denounce such power with a protest squeal.
  The scientists made it (surely they're all mad), It's better not to think and just to feel....
• WHEN YOU'RE RIDING IN A TIME MACHINE way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window or it'll turn into a fossil.
  -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988....
• Scientists have just discovered that the active ingredient in ICs is smoke - when it leaks out, they stop.