"Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter……" — Arthur Koestler
"Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which"
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110 Quotes by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler has 110 quotes on this site.
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei,…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe.…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether…
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More Causal Quotes
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Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who…
— Alan K. Simpson
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times:…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious…
— Unknown Author
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There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
— David Buss
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To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of…
— Karl Popper
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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the…
— Ernst Haeckel
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I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between…
— Ben Bernanke
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We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The…
— Unknown Author
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What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little,…
— Unknown Author
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The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to…
— Michel Chion
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The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching…
— Ken Wilber
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They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is…
— Bernard Rimland
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