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

—  Claude Lévi-Strauss

Last update Aug. 3, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." by Claude Lévi-Strauss?
Claude Lévi-Strauss photo
Claude Lévi-Strauss35
French anthropologist and ethnologist 1908–2009

Related quotes

Stephen Baxter photo

“But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.”

Stephen Baxter book Timelike Infinity

Source: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 218)

Steve Blank photo

“The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.”

Steve Blank (1953) American businessman

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 91.

Judith Sheindlin photo

“There's just one person who's allowed to ask, or answer, rhetorical questions in my courtroom -- and that's me! Understand? No, don't answer! There you go again.”

Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author

Source: Quotes From Judge Judy Cases, Dress, Stand, and/or Speak Properly

Ani DiFranco photo

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

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Confucius photo

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Benjamin Graham photo

“The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right—or at least valuable— answers.”

Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor

Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter III, The Investor and His Advisers, p. 51

Northrop Frye photo

“Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

Elie Wiesel photo

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Tom Regan photo

“What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals subjects-of-a-life? This is the question that needs to be asked about animals because this is the question we need to ask about us.”

Tom Regan book Empty Cages

Source: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 4

Related topics