Asks Quote by Arthur Koestler

“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its purpose remains…

— Barbora Jiřincová

“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their…

— John Silber

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

“There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's important to be able to simply ask the questions. Every single advance in science comes about because of courage to ask a question,…

— Lynne McTaggart

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,…

— Max Weber

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been…

— Linus Pauling

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall…

— Leo Tolstoy