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John Tukey

"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."

John Tukey, American Scientist
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"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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"I accept reality and dare not question it."

Walt Whitman, American Poet
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"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."

Yogi Berra, American Athlete
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"Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students."

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"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."

Gina Gershon, American Actress
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"Never answer a question from a farmer."

Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician
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"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors."

Curtis Sittenfeld, American Writer
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"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."

Jesse Ventura, American Politician
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"You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."

Susan Sarandon, American Actress
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."

Aldo Leopold, American Environmentalist
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