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3064 Questions quotes by 2130 unique authors
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Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not…
— Heinrich Hertz
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Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train…
— Irving Langmuir
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
— Francis Bacon
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to…
— George Wald
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight…
— Lord Kelvin
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume…
— Cynthia Heimel
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of…
— Thomas Merton
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Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.…
— Richard Dawkins
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The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
— Edith Wharton
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When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.
— Denis Waitley
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I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked…
— Stephen Moyer
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One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me…
— Lorna Luft
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,…
— Lynn Margulis
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
— Thomas Huxley
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Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
— Joseph Story
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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington…
— Daniel Okrent
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers…
— Anthony Trollope
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