Lawrence M. Krauss book A Universe from Nothing
Source: A Universe from Nothing, Simon & Schuster (2012), p. 151
Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, Introduction p. 11
Lawrence M. Krauss book A Universe from Nothing
Source: A Universe from Nothing, Simon & Schuster (2012), p. 151
“Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8, “Conversations in the Puzzle Palace” (p. 130)
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist
"Science and Scientism", p. 115.
The Second Sin (1973)
“In all beginnings dwells a magic force”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“The Science you don't know looks like magic.”
Christopher Moore book Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Kona, in Ch. 30
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003)
“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
“Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 15; this is a slight paraphrase of the definition of Aleister Crowley in Magick in Theory and Practice: Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) Union Army officer
Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 64. Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/81/mode/2up, (1914), p. 263