Science Is Organized Knowledge Wisdom Is

Despite near-universal attribution to Kant, this two-part aphorism is almost certainly not his. Quote Investigator found that Herbert Spencer coined "science is organized knowledge" in an 1854 essay in The North British Review, while the full pairing was likely assembled by historian Will Durant in The Story of Philosophy (1924) as a paraphrase of Kantian ideas — not a direct translation of anything Kant wrote. Kant scholar David Clark of McMaster University confirmed that Kant "did not say this." The confusion arose because Durant's passage appeared in a chapter on Kant.