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Quotes from The Act of Creation — Arthur Koestler

1905–1983 Hungary

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

The Act of Creation (1964)

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

The Act of Creation (1964)

Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.

The Act of Creation (1964)

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

The Act of Creation (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Koestler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.