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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"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."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
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"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
Man
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
Society
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
Being
"Power is the by-product of understanding."
Power
"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."
Nature
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
Question
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
Science
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
Life
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
Action
"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
Art
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