>>>>>No matter how brilliant a man, s/he can't be a good president if s/he is not God fearing. I think Sarah Palin can be a good U.S. president...
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>>>>I think they need to believe in magic as well.
>>>you mean sufficiently advanced technology?
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>>Any sufficiently advanced civilization, no longer believes in magic.
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>That's a subjective statement and not necessarily true.

I just threw that in because it's a clever quote I read in a sci-fi novel years ago. It's irked me for almost as long, that I can't remember the author. It might have been Paul Preuss, who was an occasional collaborator of Clarke's.

As for its veracity - why do you think it might not be true?