“Ask dumb questions.”
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American writer 1965Related quotes
“To the dumb question "Why me?"”
the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
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2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
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Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)
“Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.”
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 17.
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
His explanation of the meaning of a small symbol he used when writing his signature, as quoted in an interview with David Duncan (with an image of his signature) http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/duncan.html.
Variant: Ask the next question. And the one after that.
Context: It means "Ask the next question." Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created. This guy is sitting in a cave and he says, "Why can't man fly?" Well, that's the question. The answer may not help him, but the question now has been asked.
The next question is what? How? And so all through the ages, people have been trying to find out the answer to that question. We've found the answer, and we do fly. This is true of every accomplishment, whether it's technology or literature, poetry, political systems or anything else. That is it. Ask the next question. And the one after that.