My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
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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