Jonas Salk Quotes

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.