Advantage Quote by Robert Musil

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its…

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very…

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they…

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.

— Immanuel Kant

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is…

— Gad Saad

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

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only theology is…

— Richard Dawkins

“Whenever one asks “Why?” in science, one actually means “How?”. “Why?” is not really a sensible question in science because it usually implies purpose…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Most of the questions 'why', can be answered 'because life is a lesson'...So before you ask 'why' make sure you do not learn a…

— MikhailS

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can answer the…

— Lawrence M. Krauss