learnt quotes

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at thenew truthwith handsblood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

-Jose Ortega y Gasset
  The Revolt of the Masses.

   Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

- B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
  In New Scientist, 21 May.