The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Arthur KoestlerAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: hungarian
- Born: September 5, 1905
- Died: March 3, 1983
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