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.

Kaleidoscope. I wish my friends to know that I am leaving their company in a peaceful frame of mind with some timid hopes for a de-personalised after-life beyond due confines of space time and matter and beyond the limits of our comprehension. His book Bricks to Babel was publiArthur Koestlerd that year.

In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until disillusioned by Stalinism he resigned in 1938. Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.