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

“The best teachers still taught in a Socratic style, asking questions, responding to the answers with still another question. And in all of our courses, we were taught that what mattered most was asking the right question — having posed the question well, answering the question was often a relatively easy matter.”

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

“It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.”

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

“To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.”

“The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it—right or wrong—may be given.”

“Piero was the sort of person that every religion needs but no religion likes. Thoughtful, rational, scientific. He asked questions and did not accept the easy answers on faith.”

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

“There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask. That one question is the Original Question. And to that Original Question there is only one Final Answer. But between that Question and its Answer there are innumerable false answers.”