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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. — Ralph W. Gerard
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Unknown Author
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not… — John N. Bahcall
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect… — Noah Porter
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art. — Unknown Author
My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions. — Glenn Ligon
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the… — Owen Gingerich
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded… — Raymond Charles Barker
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become… — Kenneth Tynan
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions. — Eugene Ionesco
I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what… — George A. Sheehan
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. — Alexander Eliot
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present… — Unknown Author
What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my… — Richard Bach
There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not… — Neale Donald Walsch

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