Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Answer Quotes
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind. The answer is twelve? (“Peanuts”)
Answers are a perilous grip in the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
I will not take “but” for an answer.
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
The sign said, “Jesus is the answer.” Which is kinda weird, since my question was “What the hell’s this stuff on my sandwich?”
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know […]
