Freda Adler Quotes

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

One reads in order to ask questions

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

All human progress is preceded by new questions

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

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.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.