Asking Quote by Ted Chiang

“Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions.…

— Gareth B. Matthews

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?"…

— Philip Kitcher

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really…

— Tom Stoppard

One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?'…

— Terry Pratchett

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

— Samuel Scheffler

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral…

— David Bezmozgis

“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the fact that,…

— Eben Alexander

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

— E. L. Doctorow

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science.…

— Hilary Kornblith

“So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least…

— John Gardner

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem