The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.