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I think a lot of science can seem like magic before it’s explained properly. Sometimes we don’t have the observations, the data, or the right words yet to explain it. Surely there was a time long ago when people watched a butterfly emerge from a chrysalis and thought of it as magic.

William Shakespeare

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?

Christopher Moore

Science, you don’t know, looks like magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

Sergei Lukyanenko

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn’t use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that’s what you should do.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.The two are rarely compatible.

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.