Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Quotes by Arthur Koestler
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Nobody before the Pythagoreans had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.
The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.

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