The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Published on April 26, 2016 , under Quotes
Source: Sometimes attributed to Stephen 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)