"Those ignorant masters of our destinies who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned by scientific education.Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think!"
Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and scholar who developed general semantics. He is widely known for the formulation "the map is not the territory" and for his book Science and Sanity. He was born on July 3, 1879, and died on March 1, 1950.