"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen Hawking

January 1, 1970

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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)