Jacob Bronowski Quotes

The question is just as important as the answer.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.