As much as I love movies involving Wizards and Sorcery, anyone who knows me will also know how skeptical I am of supernatural stuff like magic. On the other hand, I have to remember the words of one of my favorite authors:
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
As you might imagine, being a bit of a science geek, Clarke’s words lead me prefer the movies that connect science to magic over all the rest. Which is why the Wizards and Sorcerers: The Age of Magic video from my last post reminded me of one I never got around to posting – one that captures my favorite moments from Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I want ice water.
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I Want Ice Water! 
“Magic is just science we don’t understand yet.” So true. If we all understood the science, magicians would be out of business.
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Absolutely my friend, but I’m reminded of that “Brain Games” series on NatGeo – how easily our minds can be fooled scares the crap of me!
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So true. And magicians and illusionists milk that for all it’s worth.
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Oh, those guys I can live with. It’s the way advertisers, politicians, and charismatics (con artists one and all) use the same tricks to milk a world filled with suckers that really bothers me…
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