Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.Arthur Koestler
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.
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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
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Artists treat facts as stimuli for imagination, whereas scientists use imagination to coordinate facts.
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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