The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Published on May 4, 2016 , under Quotes
Source: Sometimes attributed to Hawking without a source, but originally from historian Daniel J. Boorstin. It appears in different forms in The Discoverers (1983), Cleopatra’s Nose (1995), and introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995).