"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."
— Arthur Koestler
Einsteins Space Is No Closer To
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.
About this quote
From The Act of Creation (1964), Koestler's challenge to the assumption that science possesses a superior claim to truth over art. He argues that both Albert Einstein's physics and Vincent van Gogh's paintings are creative acts of the same fundamental kind: the bisociation of previously separate matrices into a new whole. Science, like art, does not discover pre-existing facts so much as construct new ways of seeing — and the glory of both lies in that act of construction rather than in any pretension to absolute reality.
Source
The Act of Creation, 1964