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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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
The question is just as important as the answer.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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