Unabashed

Photo by shesnuckinfuts. The pic comes with a quote from Sir Arthur that I’m in total agreement with:

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.”
~ Arthur C. Clarke 

My wife once observed that if there were Martians, and if we ever were to meet them, that they would call our planet “Water.”

Also, Arthur C. Clarke formulated the three laws of prediction:

1. 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.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

On a side note you may find interesting, do a Flickr search for “Arthur Clarke” and you’ll see some amazing images (including the one at the top of this post). None of the man himself, but a lot of phenomenal photography using A.C.C. quotes in their descriptions.

Goodbye, Arthur, you brilliant man. Tell Carl Sagan I said hello.