Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Gould

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

The frustration level is not uncommon. The not knowing and not having the answers is frustrating. Disaster victims just don't know what to expect.

John Davidson

The crucial question is: What does the consumer do now? The answer will take some time to determine.

Jonathan Zittrain

The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

Edward Bond

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The master does not give you any answer that you can doubt. This non-questioning consciousness is the answer. And it is your experience; you cannot doubt it, it is there.

Robbie Williams

The media has a lot to answer for,

The market is hungry for details of the Argentine swap and there are no details. There is also no answer to the question if Congress will be setting up a government corruption probe.

Jonas Salk

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

Jonah Lehrer

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

Justin Timberlake

If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

Laurie Halse Anderson

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

Terry Pratchett

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Rick Riordan

More minions!” he shouted. “Come to me!” That couldn’t be good. Another round of giant crocs and we’d be dead. Why don’t we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn’t answer.

Timothy Murphy

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

Timothy Olyphant

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Rosie O'Donnell

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

Roger von Oech

Look for the second right answer.

Sam Simon

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

Rajneesh

Every answer will make more questions

Rajneesh

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Robert Reich

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Richard P. Feynman

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Robert M. Pirsig

every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.

William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Willard Van Orman Quine

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Saint Augustine

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.