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''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.''
''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.''
The reverse could also apply, too. ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'').


To use but one example, the [[Sycorax]] thought of [[blood control]] as form of sorcery and [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] as a user of [[witchcraft]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
To use but one example, the [[Sycorax]] thought of [[blood control]] as form of sorcery and [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] as a user of [[witchcraft]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')

Revision as of 05:08, 17 January 2007

Actually, the third of three dictums, Clarke's Law states that:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

To use but one example, the Sycorax thought of blood control as form of sorcery and the Doctor as a user of witchcraft. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)

Direct reference

The Doctor reminded Ace of Clarke's Law. (DW: Battlefield).

Indirect reference

The Captain said his now-wrecked craft had posessed technologies "indistinguishable from magic" (DW: The Pirate Planet).

Clarke's Law