Robert Redford Quotes

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

One reads in order to ask questions

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

I like to make people think.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.