“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”

— Yann Martel , book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

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Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi 1963

Alexander Rosenberg (1946) American philosopher

The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)

“One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

“There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

““Why are you always so full of answers?”
“Because life’s so full of questions.””

Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron

Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 26)

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)

“The answer to the ancient question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”

Frank Wilczek (1951) physicist

Quoted in an article, "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?" http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/why_is_there_something_rather_than_nothing, by Victor Stenger (June 2006).