Ursus Wehrli Quotes

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

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

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

I love to know why things work.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

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

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.