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"All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer."

"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."
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"An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."

"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise."
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