Questions - Quotes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who`s in charge?"
Every biologist has at some time asked `What is life?` and none has ever given a satisfactory answer. Science is built on the premise that Nature answers intelligent questions intelligently; so if no answer exists, there must be something wrong with the question.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.