• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Is just being wrong a Leopards Ate My Face moment? Were there negative consequences to him saying this?

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    1 year ago

    @DevCat This seems to be an application of 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. - Arthur C. Clarke