“Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
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Heather Couper
(1949) astronomer
in "Who Discovered the Galaxy - Presidential Address – 1985" http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986JBAA...96..284C, Heather Couper, British Astron. Assoc. Journal V. 96, No. 5 (1986), p. 293, Bibliographic Code: 1986JBAA...96..284C
“One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.”
Dan Brown
(1964) American author
“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace
(1749–1827) French mathematician and astronomer
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"Les questions les plus importantes de la vie ne sont en effet, pour la plupart, que des problèmes de probabilité."
John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, The New Frontier
Context: But I tell you the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not. Beyond that frontier are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus. It would be easier to shrink back from that frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric — and those who prefer that course should not cast their votes for me, regardless of party. But I believe the times demand new invention, innovation, imagination, decision. I am asking each of you to be pioneers on that New Frontier. My call is to the young in heart, regardless of age — to all who respond to the Scriptural call: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed." For courage — not complacency — is our need today — leadership — not salesmanship. And the only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.
“The most important questions of life… are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.”
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.<!--p.1