Arthur Koestler Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Funny, Science, Eternity

• 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 its death as a species.

  Arthur Koestler

  Death, Science, Men

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

• Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Discovery, Apples

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Technology, Reality

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

• As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Science, Thinking

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

• The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Science, Discovery

  "The Act of Creation".

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