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Quotes from The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe — Arthur Koestler

1905–1983 Hungary

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A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies — such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)

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