Free, undisciplined, and uncluttered mind (Gould)
April 21st, 2007 | Published in Education, Philosophy, Quotes
No more harmful nonsense exists than this common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern.
–Stephen Jay Gould, “No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts,” in I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (2002), 48