Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.
“Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.”
"Near East or Chicago A Description"
Useful Knowledge (1928)
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
“With enigmatic clarity, Life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question.”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
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]
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
