[chrisbennet]

There's a famous quote that is attributed to Albert Einstein: “Never memorise something that you can look up.” It is said to be related to a time when a colleague asked him for his phone number, and he reached for his telephone directory to look it up.

[ProZsolt]

At an interview, Albert Szent-Györgyi states basically the same: "You shouldn't fill your head with "szecska" (chaff?). You should keep knowledge in books where you can look it up and use your head only for thinking."

The whole interview was inspiring. It's about learning and exploration. Worth watching if you understand Hungarian: https://youtu.be/rtqhA4TtBrI