Asking Quote by Robert B. Laughlin

We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin…

— Tejomayananda

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper…

— Anonymous

What I find most interesting is what nature can do if you only ask.

— Frances Arnold

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it…

— Carl Sagan

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is…

— Alison Gopnik

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

— Neil Postman

“Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.”

— Ted Agon

No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human…

— Don Piper

“There’s a difficult line to walk between what we need to know and what falls into the realm of mystery. Walking that line often…

— Casey Tygrett

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or…

— Michaela Coel

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to…

— Robert Musil