Quote #19

'Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.'

More from Arthur Koestler

  1. 'Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than th…
  2. 'The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.'
  3. 'Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.'
  4. 'True creativity often starts where language ends.'
  5. 'The offspring in the marriage of Eros and Logos is tolerance'
  6. 'Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.'
  7. 'If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.'
  8. 'Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five' (cf Orwell, in 1984)

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