"To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance."
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G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016) was a polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form.
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