As quoted in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) by Walter Moore
“Plato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it “always gives one unvarying answer.””
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 95.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Richard M. Weaver 110
American scholar 1910–1963Related quotes
““Why are you always so full of answers?”
“Because life’s so full of questions.””
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 26)
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44
“If one could always choose the right question, then every answer could be as obvious.”
Midnight Tides (2004)
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”