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Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations.

— Arthur Koestler

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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)

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967 (1967)

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — miraculously, it seems — merge into a significant event.

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)

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