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 single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...


Epilogue - The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)

Arthur Koestler Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...