#magic

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#magic #science #science

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#science #science

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#science #science

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#fairy-tales #magic #reality #science #science

Magic is a science. Miracle is the work. Mind is a laboratory. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mind #miracle #science

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#advanced #advanced technology #any #indistinguishable #magic

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. ↗

— Robert Bloch

#technology #technology

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#need

Kate short-circuits my brain. In my head we always have these clear coherent exchanges, but once we meet, what comes out it is, “Kate, do what I say or I’ll kill you.” Her default reply is, “Fuck you!” and we go downhill from there. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#magic-strikes #brain

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#fantasy #magic #world-of-dreams #dreams