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Science Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
- Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five
- Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.
- Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the…
- in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or…
- The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of…
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