"Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities:……" — Arthur Koestler

"Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse."

— Arthur Koestler

110 Quotes by Arthur Koestler

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei,…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe.…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether…

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend… — Derek Bok
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken.… — John O. Brennan
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be… — A. S. Byatt
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly… — A. S. Byatt
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help… — Chelsea Clinton
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer… — Bill Gates
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
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