Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

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

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

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

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.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

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

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

The starting point is a question.

I keep six honest serving men.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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.

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

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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.