Stephen Jay Gould Quote

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] 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.

"No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts", p. 48 - I Have Landed (2002)