Quotes About Question

The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data × Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For

What, exactly, happens to a Communist after he or she dies?

Puesto que pronto podremos manipular también nuestros deseos, quizá la pregunta real a la que nos enfrentamos no sea «¿En qué deseamos convertirnos?», sino «¿Qué queremos desear?». Aquellos que no se espanten ante esta pregunta es que probablemente no han pensado lo suficiente en ella.

Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros?

The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. But since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, the real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.

If a lost time traveller popped up in a medieval village and asked a passerby, 'What year is this?' the villager would be as bewildered by the question as by the stranger's ridiculous clothing.

But since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, the real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.

Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real question facing us is not 'what do we want to be come?' but 'what do we want to want?

The reality is; there is something which exist but what that something is; remains a question. Either because we are not capable to reveal it yet or because with time and movement it changes itself and has no truth in it. But what's the reason for its existence without having or revealing any truth, that's the evidence we need to find."

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.

It seemed that acquiring a house was not the same thing as acquiring a home. And connected to home was a question I swatted away every time it landed too near me. Who else was living with me in the grand old house with the pomegranate tree? Was I alone with the melancholy fountain for company? No. There was definitely someone else there with me, perhaps even cooling their feet in that fountain. Who was this person? A phantom.

What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?

Pertama-tama, dengan mengetahui apa itu cinta, kita akan mengetahui Tuhan. Dan ketika kita mengetahui Tuhan, kita juga jadi tahu apa itu cinta. Itulah cinta, itulah Tuhan. Pengalaman, bukan penjelasan. Perjalanan, bukan tujuan. Pertanyaan, yang sungguh tidak berjodoh dengan segala jawaban.

Seorang laki-laki tak kuasa bertanya mengapa perempuan ada Siapa itu yang berdiri dalam keanggunan tanpa perlu mengucap apa-apa Ialah puisi yang merajut cinta dengan bumi dan rahasia Hingga semua jiwa bergetar saat pulang ke pelukannya

Have you ever been kissed?" he asked. Arms coming uncrossed, she stepped back. "What?" "Have you ever been kissed?" "That's, that's none of your business.

Beware of arguments based on probability. When he was a young man, Einstein worked as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office. What are the odds that a clerk in the same office today will be the next Einstein? It's an absurd question to pose that way (like asking the odds that a deaf person will become the next Beethoven).

Should I get married? Should I be good? Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood? —GREGORY CORSO, "Marriage

Okay, what'd she do now?" "How do you know it's Meridith?" "Same way you knew 'she' was Meridith." He had a point. "HORSE?

I witnessed all things quicken to color, to form my question not answered but given its part in a vast unfolding design lit by a rising sun.

The experience of Jesus' disciples shows that when we get into the Bible's teaching about things to come, it is easier to ask the wrong question than the right one. We want to ask When? Jesus is more interested in answering Why? and What for?

Are you taking my hat hostage?

What?" she asked again. He pointed ahead of them. "See that?" "What, the snow?" "Beyond that." "More snow?" "Stop looking at the snow.