“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.” — John Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis
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“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.” — Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
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“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.” — Robert Aickman, Painted Devils
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“If you think you have all of the answers that is a sign that you do not have all of the answers.” — Michael Wade, “Monday Morning Advice for Leaders,” Execupundit (2020-03-23)
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“Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.” — Michael Frayn, Copenhagen
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“Once upon a time I had answers. Now I only have questions.” — Bob Lefsetz, “Family”, The Lefsetz Letter
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“With enigmatic clarity, Life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question.” — Yahia Lababidi, Signposts to Elsewhere
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“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.” — Isaac Asimov, The Road to Infinity
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“One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek.” — Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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“There seem to be many people who simply wish to be told an answer, any answer, and thereby avoid the burden of keeping two mutually exclusive possibilities in their heads at the same time.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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