Arthur Koestler The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.
Arthur Koestler Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which – miraculously, it seems – merge into a significant event.
Arthur Koestler The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to […]
Arthur Koestler You can’t help people being right for the wrong reasons…This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; […]
Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the […]