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, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrandt nude differs from a nude by Manet.
-- Arthur Koestler
Two half truths do not make a truth, and two half cultures do not make a culture.
-- Arthur Koestler
Comedy is the collision of two different contexts, science is their fusion and art is their juxtaposition.
-- Arthur Koestler
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