Il y avait un nombre important de questions que je m'étais posées et, comme vous le savez, lorsqu'on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l'on se contente de lire les réponses convenues.
explaining how he came to write his textbook on quantum mechanics, in Descente au coeur de la matière, an interview edited by [Stéphane Deligeorges, Le monde quantique, Editions du Seuil, Sciences et Avenir, 1984, 2020089084, 111]
“It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.”
"The Scotty Who Knew Too Much", The New Yorker (18 February 1939)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961Related quotes
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)