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G. Spencer-Brown Quotes

1923–2016 England

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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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take, therefore, the form of distinction for the form.

Laws of Form (1969)

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.

Laws of Form (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. Spencer-Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.