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

— Steve Blank

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

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American businessman 1953

Charles Sheffield book Brother to Dragons

Source: Brother to Dragons

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

“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.”

Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist

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1970s and later

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

Susanne K. Langer book Philosophy in a New Key

Source: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Ch. 1, p. 1