I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.
An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere. . . and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours. "[17
Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.
If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.
Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and it seems to me of great importance that these questions are not just left to scientists, but that there are thinkers who make it their business to think as clearly and slowly about these questions as it is possible to. Great scientists do not always make the best philosophers.
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real world. . . a race without end. . . What mattered more than the answers were the questions. . . For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. . . I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
. . . I have wanted to believe people could make their dreams come truethat problems could be solved. However, this is a national illness. As Americans, we believe all problems can be solved, that all questions have answers.
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.