Heinz R. Pagels Quotes

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I love to doubt as well as know.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

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