Concepts Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

— Max Wertheimer

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have…

— John N. Bahcall

“The "question" is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.”

— Ted Agon

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

— Robert Ballard

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on…

— Thomas A. Edison

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

— Neil Postman

“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

— Kate DiCamillo

“Any extrapolation of history into the future presupposes an environment of static discovery—an oxymoron.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people…

— Bob Woodward