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| Arthur Koestler
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. Behaviorism has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of
the rat a ratomorphic view of man.Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five.Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surelymeant us to stick it out. In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.Nobody before the Pythagorean 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.Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. True creativity often starts where language ends.We cannot unthink unless we are insane.When all is said, its atmosphere (England's) still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived. |
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