Lord Kelvin Quotes

Good questions outrank easy answers.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

The question is just as important as the answer.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

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

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Without theory we can only copy.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

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