"An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions."
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.