What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure fro….

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 b….

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really b….

The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through conta….

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 invisibl….

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy….

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost..

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still b….

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabb….

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 sho….

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face..

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ….

From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the partic….

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident..

If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one sing….

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive sava….

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to….

God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters ….

Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people ….

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes..